Cleanliness is next to godliness.
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Godliness
//ˈɡɒd.li.nəs//
Synonyms for "godliness" (83 found)
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23 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تَقْوَى noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- وَرَع noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Bulgarian
2 entries- благочестивост noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- набожност noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 虔誠 /虔诚 noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Finnish
3 entries- jumalaisuus noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- jumalallisuus noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- jumalisuus noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
French
1 entries- piété noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
German
1 entries- Göttlichkeit noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌴𐌹 noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Hebrew
1 entries- אלוהות noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Italian
3 entries- devozione noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- pietas noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- religiosità noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Japanese
1 entries- 信心深さ noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Macedonian
2 entries- набожност noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- побожност noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Polish
2 entries- bogobojność noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- pobożność noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Portuguese
1 entries- religiosidade noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Russian
2 entries- благоче́стие noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
- на́божность noun (the condition and quality of being godly)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"Frank, in pantheism, everything has some level of the aspect of God." "Don, even this pillow here?" "Yeah, even that pillow may have a scant level of godliness. It's pantheism. In pantheism, this whole universe is God." "What about panentheism?" "In panentheism, God is this whole universe and beyond it." "You're like a philosophical owl, Don!
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Some religious people wonder if God or gods come down in human form. Hinduism's avatars and Christianity's Christ are precedents. In the concept of pantheism, everything and everybody have some aspect of godliness, at some level, even though sometimes scarcely.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
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