ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

[Non-Biblical prophets and religious founders] Gautama, Buddha; Zoroaster,
Confucius, Bab-ed-Din † , Mohammed.
[Idols] golden calf &c 991; Baal † , Moloch, Dagon.
3. RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS
987. Piety -- N. piety, religion, theism, faith; religiousness, holiness &c adj.; saintship † ;
religionism † ; sanctimony &c (assumed piety) 988; reverence &c (respect) 928; humility,
veneration, devotion; prostration &c (worship) 990; grace, unction, edification; sanctity,
sanctitude † ; consecration.
spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness.
theopathy † , beatification, adoption, regeneration, conversion, justification,
sanctification, salvation, inspiration, bread of life; Body and Blood of Christ.
believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist † ; the good, the righteous, the just,
the believing, the elect; Saint, Madonna, Notre Dame [Fr.], Our Lady.
the children of God, the children of the Kingdom, the children of the light.
V. be pious &c adj.; have faith &c n.; believe, receive Christ; revere &c 928; be
converted &c; convert, edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate,
enshrine.
Adj. pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly-minded, humble, pure,
holy, spiritual, pietistic; saintly, saint-like; seraphic, sacred, solemn.
believing, faithful, Christian, Catholic.
elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated, inspired, consecrated, converted,
unearthly, not of the earth.
Phr. ne vile fano [It]; pure-eyed Faith .
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thou hovering angel girt with golden wings [Milton].
988. Impiety -- N. impiety; sin &c 945; irreverence; profaneness &c adj.; profanity,
profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing &c v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy
&c (falsehood) 544; pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence;
misdevotion † , formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness &c adj.; pharisaism,
precisianism † ; sabbatism † , sabbatarianism † ; odium theologicum [Lat.], sacerdotalism † ;
bigotry &c (obstinacy) 606, (prejudice) 481; blue laws.
hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation.
sinner &c 949; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist † ; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite
&c (dissembler) 548; Tartufe † , Mawworm † .
bigot; saint [Iron.]; Pharisee; sabbatarian † , formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist † ,
precisian † , religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado † .
the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked
one; children of darkness.
V. be impious &c adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear &c
(malediction) 908; commit sacrilege.
snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.