cultish devotion

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• cultish — adj. of a religious sect; of extreme admiration; of a group that shares a deep devotion to a certain subject …   English contemporary dictionary

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• cult — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate more at wheel Date: 1617 1. formal religious veneration ; worship 2. a system of religious beliefs and ri …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• cult — cultic, cultual /kul chooh euhl/, adj. cultish, adj. /kult/, n. 1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies. 2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a …   Universalium

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• sectarian — Synonyms and related words: Bohemian, adherent, alienated, antiestablishment, apostate, at odds with, at variance with, beatification, beatitude, beatnik, bigot, bigoted, blessedness, blessing, breakaway, bug, canonization, clannish, cliquish,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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• cult — noun 1》 a system of religious devotion directed towards a particular figure or object.     ↘a relatively small religious group regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members. 2》 [often as modifier] a thing that is… …   English new terms dictionary