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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group sharing belief |
| Synonyms: | band, body, church, clan, clique, creed, denomination, faction, faith, following, party, persuasion, religion, school, sect |
| Notes: | a sect is a rule defined by some doctrinal difference, a cult by allegiance to an idea or commanding personality |
| Main Entry: | church |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | religious belief, group |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, body, chapter, communion, congregation, connection, creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, faction, faith, gathering, ism, order, persuasion, religion, schism, sect, society |
| Main Entry: | creed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, principles |
| Synonyms: | articles of faith, canon, catechism, church, confession, conviction, cult, doctrine, dogma, faith, ideology, persuasion, profession, religion, tenet, weltanschauung |
| Main Entry: | denomination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | religious belief |
| Synonyms: | church, communion, connection, creed, cult, faith, group, persuasion, religion, school, sect |
| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in a higher being; community of believers |
| Synonyms: | canon, church, communion, confession, connection, conviction, credo, creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, dogma, doxy, gospel, orthodoxy, persuasion, piety, piousness, principle, profession, religion, revelation, sect, teaching, tenet, theism, theology, worship |
| Antonyms: | agnosticism, denial, doubt, rejection, skepticism, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | persuasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, religion |
| Synonyms: | bias, camp, certitude, church, communion, connection, conviction, credo, creed, cult, denomination, eye, faction, faith, feeling, mind*, opinion, partiality, party, predilection, prejudice, school, school of thought, sect, sentiment, side, tenet, view |
| Antonyms: | atheism, disbelief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | religion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in divinity; system of beliefs |
| Synonyms: | church, communion, creed, cult, denomination, devotion, doctrine, higher power, morality, myth, mythology, observance, orthodoxy, pietism, piety, prayer, preference, religiosity, rites, ritual, sacrifice, sanctification, sect, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, standards, superstition, theology, veneration |
| Antonyms: | agnosticism, atheism, disbelief |
| Main Entry: | sect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | school of thought |
| Synonyms: | camp, church, communion, connection, creed, crew, cult, denomination, division, faction, faith, following, group, order, party, persuasion, religion, school, splinter group, team, wing |
| Notes: | a sect is a rule defined by some doctrinal difference, a cult by allegiance to an idea or commanding personality |
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| Main Entry: | church |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abbatial, abbatical, antinomian, apostolic, apostolical, archiepiscopal, autocephalous, biblical, canonical, capitular, clerical, conventual, denominational, ecclesiastical, ecclesiological, ecumenical, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelical, evangelistic, hierarchical, hieratic, his eminence, his grace, his holiness, homiletic, in orders, inspired, kaaba, kerygmatic, laical, latitudinarian, lay, litaneutical, ministerial, monachal, monasterial, monastic, monkish, ordained, papable, papal, paparchical, pastoral, pontifical, prelatical, presbyterian, priest, priestly, prophetic, religious, sacerdotal, sacred, scriptural, sectarian, secular, supralapsarian, sybilline, syncretic, syncretical, temporal, textuary, the reverend, the right reverend, the very reverend, theandric, theocentric, theochristic, theocratic, theological, theopneust, theopneustic, trayf, ultramontane, unhouselled, vatic
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