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God-fearing

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Following the precepts of a religious practice; respecting and revering God and his authority.

    "Margie married Bill, a good, God-fearing Christian."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of God-fearing and of godfearing. alt-of, alternative
Adjective
  1. 1
    deeply religious wordnet

Etymology

From God + fearing, likely a continuation (in altered form) of earlier Middle English goddfrihti, gode-frigti (“god-fearing”), variants of Middle English godfriht, gode-friht, godfruht, god-furht, from Old English godfyrht, godefriht (“god-fearing”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 (gudafaurhts, “god-fearing, devout”).

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