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To make profe ions of religion; play the religionist. [Recent.] How much religionizing stupidity it requires in one to imagine that God can be propitiated or pleased with them [human inventions]. S. H. Cox , Interviews Memorable and Useful, p. 138. Also spelled religionise . religionle (rē-lij'on-les), a. [ religion + -le .] Without religion; not profe ing or believing in religion; irreligious. Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, gracele , thankle , religionle old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and ere you be old, learn to love and pray! Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xiv. religiosity (re-lij-i-os'i-ti), n . [ religios ite , religiosete , religieusete , F. religiosité = Sp. religiosidad = Pg. religiosidade = It. re ligiosità , religiosita (t-)s, religiousne , giousne , ML. religious or monastic life, religiosus , religious: see religious .] 1. Religiousne ; the sentiment of religion; specifically, ecifically, in recent use, an exce ive susceptibility to the religious sentiments, especially wonder wonder, awe, and reverence, unaccompanied naccompanied by any corresponding loyalty to divine law in daily life; religious sentimentality. One Jewish quality these Arabs manifest, the outcome of many or of all high qualities: what we may call religi osity . Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, ii. from that religiosity which is one of the Away.. curses of our time, he studied his New Testament, and in this, as in every other matter, made up his mind for himself.