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God-fearing

[god-feer-ing] / ˈgɒdˌfɪər ɪŋ /


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Like many of Walterboro’s roughly 5,400 inhabitants, she described Hill as a quintessential Southern belle—churchgoing, God-fearing and ready with a smile or an offer of sweet tea.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

From someone who described himself as "the all-knowing master of the universe", he now identifies as a God-fearing man who believes in good energies, the cyclic nature of life and "scientific astrologers".

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025

The story follows Dawn O’Keefe, a God-fearing good girl — surrounded by shame-lobbing, not-so-good men — whose body has a sharp sense of justice.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2024

It’s heartbreaking how he could only swing like a pendulum between being out and God-fearing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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