Word Meanings - GODLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life. For godly sorrow worketh repentance. 2 Cor. vii. 10.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GODLY)
- Devout
- religious
- pious
- godly
- saintly
- holy
- prayerful
- Religious
- Pious
- devout
- devotional
- divine
- sacred
- Righteous
- Upright
- just
- virtuous
- uncorrupt
- rightful
- equitable
- truthful
- conscientious
- Saintly
- Pure
- spiritual
- heavenly-minded
Related words: (words related to GODLY)
- DEVOUT
1. A devotee. Sheldon. 2. A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion. Milton. - SACRILEGIOUS
Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n. - SACRAL
Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum. - SACROVERTEBRAL
Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle. - SACRIFICANT
One who offers a sacrifice. - RIGHTEOUSNESS
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - DEVOTIONALLY
In a devotional manner; toward devotion. - UNCORRUPTIBLE
Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i. - SACRILEGE
The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege - UPRIGHTNESS
the quality or state of being upright. - SACRIFICE
1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid - SACRIFIC; SACRIFICAL
Employed in sacrifice. Johnson. - SACRAMENTALLY
In a sacrament manner. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - SACRAMENTALIST
One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley. - CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience. - DIVINER
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one - DEVOUTFUL
1. Full of devotion. 2. Sacred. To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston. - SPIRITUALISTIC
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. - UNSACRAMENT
To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism. - TRISACRAMENTARIAN
One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - SACRE
See SAKKER - OVERRIGHTEOUS
Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy. - SELF-RIGHTEOUS
Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.