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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin religiōbor. Old French religionbor. Middle English religioun English religion From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”).

derived from *h₂leg-✻
derived from religiō
derived from religion
inherited from religioun

Definitions

1
Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity),…
Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
- Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.
2
A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
- Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- Near-synonyms: credo, creed
- Islam is a major religion, particularly in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
3
The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
- The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
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1. 4
  Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
  - I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
  - Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.
2. 5
  Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
  - At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
  - 'Religion can't exist without mystery, especially science, the newest religion.'
3. 6
  Faithfulness to a given principle
  Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
  - Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!
4. 7
  Engage in religious practice.
  - On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning.
  - Religious practice and action (“religioning”) can be liberating, and can connect displaced people with the spirits of home.
5. 8
  Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
  - To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
  - “What do you do, Donnigan? Spend all yer time religioning yer young?”
6. 9
  To make sacred or symbolic
  To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
  - The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
  - If queer Jews, Muslims and Christians are engaged in queering their religions, they are also engaged in what might becalled 'religioning' the queer.

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A definitional loop anchored at religion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at religion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at religion

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Etymology

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