religious

• adj.宗教的；敬虔な；厳格な；修道士
• n. 修道士; 修道女

religion, religious, sect, -ous, 形容詞接尾辞.

religious (adj.)

c. 1200, "devout, pious, imbued with or expressive of religious devotion," from Anglo-French religius, Old French religious (12c., Modern French religieux) and directly from Latin religiosus, from religio (see religion). Meaning "pertaining to religion" is from 1530s. Transferred sense of "scrupulous, exact" is recorded from 1590s. Related: Religiousness.

1. She was a fairly rigid person who had strong religious views.

彼女はかなり頑固で、宗教観念が強い。

2.The teenager may have been abducted by a religious cult.

この少年は異教組織に誘拐された可能性がある。

3.A religious psychotic in Las Vegas has killed four people.

ラスベガスで精神病を患う宗教マニアが4人を殺した。

4.The religious conservatives are not enamoured of the West and its values.

宗教保守派の人々は西側諸国とその価値観を好まない。

5.Their religious convictions prevented them from taking up arms.

宗教的信仰のため、武器を持って抵抗することはありません。