Chapter Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Sanctified, regenerated, justified, adopted, elected, inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, sacred, solemn, not of the earth.

• Impiety (Substantives), irreverence, profaneness, profanity, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilegiousness; scoffing, reviling.

Assumed piety: hypocrisy, pietism, lip-devotion, lip-service, lip-reverence, formalism, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, religiosity, odium theologicum.

Sinner, outcast, castaway, lost sheep, reprobate.

Hardening, backsliding, declension, reprobation.

A scoffer, hypocrite, pietist, religionist, precisian, formalist; sons of darkness, sons of men, sons of Belial, blasphemer, Pharisee.

A bigot, devotee, fanatic, sabbatarian.

The wicked, unjust, ungodly, unrighteous.

(Verbs). To be impious, etc., idolise.

To profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff.

(Adjectives). Impious, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, desecrating, blasphemous, unhallowed, unsanctified, hardened, perverted, reprobate.

Bigoted, priest-ridden, fanatical, churchy.

Hypocritical, pietistical, sanctimonious, over-righteous, righteous overmuch.

(Phrases). Under the mask, cloak, or pretence of religion.

• Irreligion (Substantives), ungodliness, unholiness, gracelessness.

Scepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, faithlessness, want of faith or belief 485, 487.

Atheism, hylotheism.

Deism, infidelity, freethinking, rationalism, agnosticism, unchristianness, anti-christianity.

An atheist, sceptic, unbeliever, deist, freethinker, rationalist, agnostic, infidel, alien, giaour, heathen.

(Verbs). To be irreligious, disbelieve, lack faith, doubt, question, etc.

To dechristianise, rationalise.

(Adjectives). Irreligious, undevout, godless, atheistic, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, graceless, without God, carnal-minded.

Sceptical, unbelieving, freethinking, agnostic, rationalistic, incredulous, unconverted, faithless, lacking faith, unhallowed.

Deistical, antichristian, unchristian, worldly-minded, mundane, carnal, earthly-minded.

(Adverb). Irreligiously, etc.