God-fearing

adjective

Definition of God-fearingnext
as in devout

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for God-fearing
  1. devout
  2. godly
  3. prayerful
  4. religious
  5. saintly
  6. worshipful
  7. sainted
  8. pious
Adjective
  • Here, the Pacifica played with devout focus, bringing us into the territory of late Beethoven and late Shostakovich.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • But that is exactly what the 72-year-old devout Catholic and grandmother has become to some in this northern California county — which has been convulsed by conspiracy theories about voter fraud and other extremist ideologies over the last three years.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of devout
Adjective
  • Not even the godly Irishman Aidan O’Brien nor his American combatant Pletcher know that.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • In a modern-day setting, Zeus has chained up Prometheus after interfering his with godly rule over humanity.
    Variety Entertainment News Service (TNS), Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of godly
Adjective
  • The Republican National Convention is a redemption story, a narrative of prayerful compliance.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • As the beat ascends, Eazi sings the title phrase with prayerful gravitas.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
Definition of prayerful
Adjective
  • Social psychology experiments show that people often cope with the specter of death by attaching themselves to cultural ideologies, such as religious, political, or even sports fandom.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
  • There is no power remotely more meaningful than political power, not star power, cultural power, financial power, religious power.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of religious
Adjective
  • In Delia’s eyes, Peter is a saintly silver fox, whose fondness for baseball and the great outdoors is only eclipsed by his passion for philosophy and feminism.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Such saintly behavior aside, one part of Jack that was becoming less sanctified was his body.
    Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
Definition of saintly
Adjective
  • In a country given to worshipful talk of Founding Fathers, this is not a new subject on the political stage.
    Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Today, Robeson is remembered as an ascendant figure in any cultural history of America in the twentieth century, the subject of thick biographies, the inspiration for academic conferences, and the topic of worshipful documentaries.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of worshipful
Adjective
  • This one could be like Intel in the 1990s, a stock that had one of the most sainted trajectories, rivaled and now exceeded by that of Club stock Nvidia.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Lorne Michaels is the out-of-touch one, and Jim Henson is essentially sainted.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of sainted
Adjective
  • Paxton, pious to the end, responds by talking about the Great Prayer Experiment, a (very real) series of studies that sought to test whether prayer has any tangible healing impact — and conclusively found there to be not.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Like his father, the junior Winthrop was a pious Christian.
    Ed Simon, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of pious
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