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  2. Sacrilege - Wikipedia

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    By the time of Cicero, sacrilege had adopted a more expansive meaning, including verbal offences against religion and the undignified treatment of sacred objects. Owing to the phonetic similarities between the words sacrilegious and religious , and their spiritually-based uses in modern English, many people mistakenly assume that the two words ...

  3. Reverence (emotion) - Wikipedia

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    Reverence is an ingredient in what he terms a peak experience, which is crucial to having a fulfilling life. Maslow states that "wonder, awe, reverence, humility, surrender, and even worship before the greatness of the experience are often reported" in peak experiences. [6]: 65 Religion is a possible, but not a necessary context for this ...

  4. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  5. Reverence - Wikipedia

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    Reverence may refer to: Reverence (emotion) a subjective response to something excellent in a personal way Reverence (attitude) , the acknowledgement of the legitimacy of the power of one's superior or superiors

  6. Reverence for Life - Wikipedia

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    The phrase Reverence for Life is a translation of the German phrase: "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben." These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon ), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for our time.

  7. Awe - Wikipedia

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    The term awe stems from the Old English word ege, meaning "terror, dread, awe," which may have arisen from the Greek word áchos, meaning "pain." [9] The word awesome originated from the word awe in the late 16th century, to mean "filled with awe." [10] The word awful also originated from the word awe, to replace the Old English word egeful ...

  8. Uncanny - Wikipedia

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    By contrasting the German adjective unheimlich with its base word heimlich ("concealed, hidden, in secret"), he proposes that social taboo often yields an aura not only of pious reverence but even more so of horror and even disgust, as the taboo state of an item gives rise to the commonplace assumption that that which is hidden from public eye ...

  9. Eusebeia - Wikipedia

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    Eusebeia (Greek: εὐσέβεια from εὐσεβής "pious" from εὖ eu meaning "well", and σέβας sebas meaning "reverence", itself formed from seb-meaning sacred awe and reverence especially in actions) is a Greek word abundantly used in Greek philosophy as well as in Greek translations of texts of Indian religions and the Greek New Testament, meaning to perform the actions ...