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- adjective religion, God One who follows the
precepts of areligious practice and respects and reveres God and His authority
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Examples
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God-fearing straight men have had a monopoly for a very long time, and many peculiar decisions have been made.
Matthew Chapman: The Atheist in the Closet Matthew Chapman 2011
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God-fearing straight men have had a monopoly for a very long time, and many peculiar decisions have been made.
Matthew Chapman: The Atheist in the Closet Matthew Chapman 2011
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In fact, any God-fearing soul knows there's no way she would ever be a Democrat.
Steve McSwain: As A Fundamentalist Christian, This I Was Taught to Believe Steve McSwain 2011
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God-fearing straight men have had a monopoly for a very long time, and many peculiar decisions have been made.
Matthew Chapman: The Atheist in the Closet Matthew Chapman 2011
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Set up the tripod and the timer and snap a picture of your happy family, being protected by you, this God-fearing father and husband who worships the Virgin Mary.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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In fact, any God-fearing soul knows there's no way she would ever be a Democrat.
Steve McSwain: As A Fundamentalist Christian, This I Was Taught to Believe Steve McSwain 2011
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Being the highly superstitious, God-fearing, slightly obsessive-compulsive, type A perfectionist that I am, with the bead in my fist, I knock on the wooden bedpost, thank God for keeping him safe, and blame his sister.
Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011
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Momma had also once told me that money had the power to turn the most righteous into fiendish, selfish slobs without a God-fearing conscience.
Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011
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Ethan had thick blond hair and a cute upturned nose that belied a long ancestry of lockjawed, God-fearing, WASP bankers.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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God-fearing straight men have had a monopoly for a very long time, and many peculiar decisions have been made.
Matthew Chapman: The Atheist in the Closet Matthew Chapman 2011
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