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noun a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
adjective concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
adjective having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
originFrom Middle English religiouse, religious, religius, religeous, from Anglo-Norman religieus, religius, from Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latin religiōsus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religiō. Doublet of religieux.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0