Definition of Religious right

1. Noun. United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools.

Generic synonyms: Right, Right Wing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Right

religious music
religious mystic
religious mysticism
religious naturalism
religious naturalist
religious naturalists
religious offering
religious order
religious orders
religious orientation
religious outcast
religious person
religious philosophies
religious pluralism
religious residence
religious right (current term)
religious rite
religious ritual
religious school
religious sect
religious service
religious services
religious song
religious text
religious toleration
religious trance
religious writing
religiousism
religiously
religiousness

Literary usage of Religious right

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge and Gazetteer by Talbot Wilson Chambers, Frank Hugh Foster, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1889)
"Of a monastery, the lay members, who are servants, mechanics, etc., -who are admitted into the community through certain religious right». 8. ..."

2. International Law: Private and Criminal by Ludwig von Bar, George Robertson Gillespie (1883)
"This religious right of asylum was useful, and even necessary, ... 3 The only thing which the religious right of asylum has in common with the international ..."

3. The Christian Science Journal by Mary Baker Eddy (1906)
"... but a lawful and beneficial exercise of a religious right and duty, this may be shown, and thus bring it within the protection of the Constitution. ..."

4. The Rights of the People: Or, Civil Government and Religion by Alonzo Trévier Jones (1895)
"The first and greatest of all the rights of men is religious right. ... Such is the origin, such the nature, and such the measure, of religious right. ..."

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