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religiously

[ ri-lij-uhs-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that is related to or concerned with religion:
We believe matters of faith should be handled by religiously educated staff.
faithfully, sincerely, and with pious devotion:
The tribe religiously observes the rite of ancestral veneration as an integral part of their cultural heritage.
with scrupulous or conscientious regularity or diligence:
Initially I took composting very seriously; I made a perfectly square pair of bins for composting and turned my piles religiously.
habitually or without fail:
Religiously, every Saturday night, I recorded my favorite comedy show on BBC Radio.

Congress is now 92 percent Christian, resembling more to a papal enclave than our religiously diverse nation.

Allowing religiously affiliated organizations to opt out of Obamacare, period.

Of course, the study makes a point of separating the religiously conservative from the politically conservative.

But my sister and her husband have very specific series that they really watch religiously.

It gets even more complicated on “Level 3,” religiously affiliated organizations.

This had been the programme which Mrs. Pontellier had religiously followed since her marriage, six years before.

He was a bachelor and had all the vices which, however, he religiously concealed.

The present owner, whose hospitality is proverbial in the neighbourhood, has religiously preserved the room intact.

The outside machinery for mentally and religiously improving the district is very extensive and varied.

He forgot one or two of the formalities which were religiously observed at that solitary table.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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