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Religious Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |