religious enthusiasm

collocation in English

meaningsofreligiousandenthusiasm

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religious
adjective
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/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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enthusiasm
noun
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/ɪnˈθjuː.zi.æz.əm/us
/ɪnˈθuː.zi.æz.əm/
a feeling of energetic interest in a particular subject or activity and an eagerness to be involved ...
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(Definition ofreligiousandenthusiasmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The relationship betweenreligiousenthusiasmand enlightened philosophy, however, could be closer than is often thought.
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Their "religiousenthusiasm" created a secular backlash and prompted political discourse after 1660 to shun the overtly religious.
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He sought on the one hand to combatreligiousenthusiasmand, on the other, to resist the onslaught of materialism.
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There is the immense fervour, one might almost say the excessive fervour, ofreligiousenthusiasm.
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Religiousenthusiasmmay be a holy thing.
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Church life, religious vocations, new foundations andreligiousenthusiasmall flourished at the end of his pontificate.
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He distrustedreligiousenthusiasmand any alteration of the mind away from reason.
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At the timereligiousenthusiasmwas generally regarded as a social transgression and was stigmatised in polite society.
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Maijishan was most likely started during this wave ofreligiousenthusiasm.
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He was also perturbed by an increase inreligiousenthusiasmon campus, and with that a temperance movement, which he mildly protested.
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Historians and theologians identify three or four waves of increasedreligiousenthusiasmoccurring between the early 18th century and the late 19th century.
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This experience cemented hisreligiousenthusiasm.
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Twenty-seven years after the first small church was built, a wave ofreligiousenthusiasmdictated the need for a larger building to accommodate the crowds attending services.
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These multi-day gatherings hosted people from great distances for outdoor services focused on the heart-felt conversion andreligiousenthusiasmthat came to characterize especially rural evangelicalism throughout the nineteenth century.
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Toulouse did not forget its traditionalreligiousenthusiasm, even if the end of the 18th century marks a certain decline.
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This pessimism limited and defined the form in whichreligiousenthusiasmshould manifest itself, and prescribed as a condition of successful effort the adoption of pseudonymous authorship.
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It brings to old planes unknown feelings of freshness, with the quality of something newly created, like a miracle, and it produces an almostreligiousenthusiasm....
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