religious significance

collocation in English

meaningsofreligiousandsignificance

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religious
adjective
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uk
/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/
us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition ofreligiousandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreligious significance

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These cases are of suchreligioussignificancethat they ought to be distinguishable.
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This book is an account of his observations and a further elaboration of his conclusions about the medical, social andreligioussignificanceof the phenomena.
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A cosmological argument should have somereligioussignificance.
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Such necklaces likely carried specific meanings in terms ofreligioussignificance, social status, and/or political roles.
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It determined his understanding of the particular difficulties which characterize philosophy as well as his view of philosophy's ethical\\religioussignificance.
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Miracles are usually thought to be acts that havereligioussignificance.
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Miracles are necessarily events that are imbued with particularreligioussignificance, in the sense of being perceived to be the result of particular supernatural agency.
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It is an unplanned event that lacks anyreligioussignificancewhatsoever.
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The contrast could be misleading, as science can turn into scientism and assumereligioussignificance.
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This location is rather unusual because constructions of primary social andreligioussignificanceare most often set in the central core of the site.
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The medical subject matter (the body), the medical practitioner, the patient, and the curing process acquire moral andreligioussignificance.
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In addition to the value judgments and the social andreligioussignificancebuilt into it, the notion of disease is also deeply practical.
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The degree to which thisreligioussignificancemay have translated into political power is an interesting question.
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They havereligioussignificancebecause they are instrumental to the plans of supernatural agents, as interpreted by natural agents.
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Is it too remote to have anyreligioussignificance?
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Yet for him these pursuits were saturated withreligioussignificance.
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It is worth noting that on this account, an artwork may bear areligioussignificanceeven if it lacks any explicitly religious content.
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Whatever theirreligioussignificance, the ritual actions these objects represent can be divided by both the context of their recovery and the type of censer used.
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