Unspotted from the World (1:27) James does not give a definition of religion in this verse but an illustration of the right sort of religious exercise in contrast with the futile religiosity already noted.
The queer string in her nature between religiosity and superstition began to vibrate.
These exercises in emancipated religiosity occurred at the house of Mr. Silas Root, and were greatly valued by a large circle of clients.
For the things of the spirit have never appealed in vain to the Celtic soul, and long ago classical observers were struck with the religiosity of the Celts.
The first produces exclusively sanctimoniousreligiosity and gives edifying moral precepts.
There is far more genuine Christian spirit in the fraternal laity of the French Republic, defender of the weak, than in the religiosity of the conservative Junkers.
Mingled with the religiosity of his nature there was much obstinacy and self-seeking; and when Kerbogha was finally repelled, he began to dispute the possession of Antioch with Bohemund, pleading in excuse his oath to Alexius.
The sultan, who had risen from a Mongolian slave to become a second Saladin, and who combined the physique and audacity of a Danton with the tenacity and religiosity of a Philip II.
To-day the idleness enforced by fashion leads often to morbid religiosity or to moral disaster.
I should say it was not in her paintings that the religious essence of this race was to be found, not in the somewhat posing monks of Zurbaran, nor in the gentle religiosity of Murillo's madonnas.
Before the middle of the next century Jerusalem was once more a fortified city and its population had been further reinforced by many returned exiles who had imbibed the economic civilization, and also the religiosity of Babylonia.
Alexander had been quick to perceive the religiosity of the new world into which he had come.
The Greek, in a word, had only his philosophies to offer to thereligiosity of the East.
Alexander, who has never been forgotten by the traditions and myths of the East, might possibly, with longer life, have satisfied Asiatic religiosity with an apotheosis of himself.
All the mediæval religiosity ran to forms of which asceticism and magic were the core.
In spite of the religiosity of the age there were princes and factions which cared more for political power than for theological questions.
On the contrary, the bonds of the family were more loosened than strengthened by the ascetic-hierarchical religiosity of the church.
The age was not religious, but it had intense religiosity, and the whole religiosity was heated to a high pitch by the contest with the Albigenses.
He liberated men from outward religiosity, because he made religiosity an inward affair of the heart.
In the healthy association of the sexes there is very little danger, but in such morbid association there is great danger, the more that the morbid conceals itself under religiosity and the allied phases of sexual perversion.
In the first part of his reign he was vigorous and jealous of his prerogatives, but after his crusade his religiosity developed to such an extent as to make him utterly inefficient.
In the first place, it is an untenable idea that religiosity or devoutness of spirit is valuable in itself, without reference to the goodness or badness of the dogmatic forms and the practices in which it clothes itself.
Commines recognized him at once; he was from Valmy, one of the many clerics the King's strange religiosity gathered round him, and justly held by Louis in deep respect for the simplicity and saintliness of his life.
Do you not smell the King's unctuous, perverted religiosity in that sentence, Monsieur d'Argenton?
It combines a profound and certainly sincere--almost severe--religiosity with a very vigorous practice of some things which the religion it professes does not at all countenance.
And thus it is that when anything happens to disturb or break up their earthly home their rootless religiosity goes with it.
Others, again, have all their religiosity rooted in their family life.
The ephemeral was, in the latter, the sort of half doubting religiosity which has occupied so much of the thought of our day.
Mrs Ward's account of Secularist organisations is an unfortunate proof that the spirit of religiosity does not change with mere modifications of dogma.
One by one, the champions of the religiosity of the legislature against the Atheist had been shown to do their cause small credit in their persons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religiosity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cant; devotion; falseness; hypocrisy; insincerity; mouthing; mummery; piety; snuffle; unction
