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religiosity|rɪlɪdʒɪˈɒsɪtɪ| [ad. late L. religiōsitas: see religious and -ity. Cf. F. religiosité (15th c.), and religiousty.] 1. Religiousness, religious feeling or sentiment.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. i. 17 The drede of the Lord [is] religiosite of kunnyng. Ibid. 18 Religiosite shal kepen, and iustefien the herte. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 245/1 There is treble generacion spirituel of god, that is to saye, of natyuyte, religyosite, and of body mortalite. 1609Bible (Douay) Ecclus. i. 17, 18. 1813 Edin. Rev. XXII. 222 Their disposition to religious feeling, which they call religiosity, is..a love of divine things for the love of their moral qualities. 1846J. Martineau Misc. (1852) 188 Our author argues from the religiosity of man to the reality of God. 1887Z. A. Ragozin Chaldea iii. 149 Man has all that animals have, and two things which they have not—speech and religiosity. b. Affected or excessive religiousness.
1799W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 283 Great sticklers for feminine purity, or prudery, or religiosity. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 102 A feverish state of what may better be called religiosity, than religion. 1873Morley Rousseau I. ix. 317 It is hard to imagine a more execrable emotion than the complacent religiosity of the prosperous. c. With pl. A religious service. rare—1.
1834Southey Doctor ix. (1848) 26 The soporific sermons which closed the domestic religiosities of those..days. †2. = religion 1 and 2. Obs. rare.
c1449Pecock Repr. iv. vi. 453 Religiosite of mannys ordinaunce is leeful..and ech such order or dignite and ech such seid religiosite mad bi man [etc.]. |