Definition of God-fearing

1. Adjective. Deeply religious. "A god-fearing and law-abiding people"

Exact synonyms: Devout
Similar to: Religious
Derivative terms: Devoutness

Definition of God-fearing

1. Adjective. (context religion God) One who follows the precepts of a religious practice and respects and reveres God and His authority ¹

2. Adjective. (alternative form of God-fearing) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of God-fearing

gobsmacked
gobsmacking
gobsmackingly
gobsmacks
gobstopper
gobstoppers
gobstruck
goburra
goburras
goby
gocart
gocarts
god
god-awful
god-child
god-fearing
god-forsaken
god-king
god-like
god-modding
god awful
god dammit
god game
god games
god mode
god modes
god of war
godawful
godawfully
godchild

Literary usage of God-fearing

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

1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1894)
"... under God, he changed a nation of slaves, deeply sunk in degradation and idolatry, into a free, independent, and God-fearing people ? J. WILLIAM DAWSON. ..."

2. Missionary Review of the World (1917)
"They are bound to see the mistaken policy of persecuting God-fearing peo- AT THE DEBT-PAYING FESTIVAL IN PASTOR FETLER'S TABERNACLE, PETROGRAD pie like the ..."

3. Eastern Proverbs and Emblems Illustrating Old Truths by James Long (1881)
"Japan.—Life is a light before the wind, Job 7. 7. Arab.—Like a moth falling on a lighted caudle. God-fearing the Fountain of Life. ..."

4. Lives of Indian Officers by John William Kaye (1889)
"The delight of a happy home, and the bright example of a devoted family, he was an upright and a God-fearing man, walking ever humbly with that God, ..."

5. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"She had the purity of nature and prudence of a really good and God-fearing girl. She knew that there was something more and better worth having in the world ..."

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