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(theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
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(theology) Something to be done; a practical duty, rather than an article of faith.
n
One who advocates or enacts an authoritarian policy of austerity.
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(countable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see central, dogma.
adj
Of or pertaining to clarification
adv
With regard to religious confession; denominationally, religiously.
n
An imaginary religion, especially one associated with a conworld or conlang.
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(sociology, education) A social concept, grounded in Marxist critical theory, that focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of perceived social and political contradictions.
adj
Of or pertaining to a covenant.
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(theology) A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.
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(transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
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(theology) the sovereignty, superintendence, or agency of God over events in people's lives and throughout history.
adj
Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
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An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
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Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
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The right of people to hold any religious beliefs, or none, and to carry out any practices in accordance with those beliefs or with that absence of belief, so long as these practices do not interfere with other people's legal or civil rights, or any reasonable laws, without fear of harm or prosecution.
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An event or personal experience, often identified as coincidence, so astonishing that it is seen as a sign of divine intervention, especially when perceived as the answer to a prayer.
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(religion) a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs
adv
(rare) Approximate synonym or polytheistic equivalent of honest to God.
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(US, historical) Any law that racially segregated public facilities and which was enacted in Southern and border states in the United States between 1876 and 1965.
n
The quality of being laic; the condition of a layman.
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A generalized spiritual doctrine that claims love of a deity or love within the context of other spiritual virtues as moral duty.
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Alternative form of layperson [A person who is not a cleric.]
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(obsolete) The fact or condition of being all, specifically as an attribute of God.
adj
all-creating, omnific.
adj
Producing or bringing forth all things.
adj
Producing all things; omniparient.
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Synonym of hyperpower (“international hegemon”)
adj
Almighty; being all-powerful; omnipotent.
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(archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
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(archaic) a pedant, schoolmaster.
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A person who believes in the power of love, in governance by love.
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An optimistic, futuristic consumer culture and aesthetic in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
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A precisian; a religious purist or Puritan.
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The belief (or doctrine) that one is powerless to change one's destiny.
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(theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
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(obsolete) A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures.
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The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature etc.).
n
(chiefly derogatory) Non-mainstream belief or philosophy with certain aspects of religion (a founder, a principal text, faith-based beliefs, etc.).
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Alternative form of red-tapism [(derogatory) strict adherence to official formalities.]
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In the manner of religion.
n
One rigidly adhering to institutional procedures.
n
One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.
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(religion) Accordance with the religious rubric.
adv
According to scripture.
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A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
n
The office or quality of a seer.
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(religion) The persecution of a person or group on religious grounds, without actual physical violence.
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The worship or idealization of success.
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The quality of being a Sunday, or like a Sunday.
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A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
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Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.
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(obsolete) The laity; secular people.
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(countable) An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.
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A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
adj
(now rare, archaic) Traditional, of or relating to tradition.
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(theology) One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation.
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The attitude or belief that a particular doctrine, culture, or social system, particularly a religious or political one, is superior and that it will or should triumph over all others.
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One who believes dogmatically in something regardless of evidence or even conclusive proof that the thing is false or was staged; one who has true-believer syndrome.
adj
(rare) Extraordinarily tyrannical; of utmost tyranny.
n
Divine or sanctifying grace.
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Alternative form of voluntarism [(US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.]
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