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Religious Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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piety | the act of following religous rules and beliefs very carefully |
pious | being very religious; following the rules of a religious faith |
relic | something that is very old; in religion, a very old item that has great religious significance |
veneration | reverence, admiration; the act of honoring something greatly |
heresy | believing something other than what others believe; in religion, going against the religious rules and beliefs |
dogma | personal code; in religion, the religious beliefs that one uses to help them make decisions |
excommunicate | to cut off from others; in religion, a punishment used to isolate those who break the rules from everyone else who follows them |
doctrine | belief system; in religion, the official teachings of a church |
purgatory | somewhere in the middle; in religion, a place where souls await entrance into heaven |