different between religion vs deconvert

English

Alternative forms

• Religion

Etymology

From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religi? (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Indo-European root *h?leg with the meanings preserved in Latin d?ligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l?d??n/
• Rhymes: -?d??n

Noun

religion (countable and uncountable, plural religions)

1. (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.

   Synonym: faith

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     Most books on the philosophy of religion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essence consists of. ... I shall not be pedantic enough to enumerate any of them to you now. Meanwhile the very fact that they are so many and so different from one another is enough to prove that the word “religion” cannot stand for any single principle or essence, but is rather a collective name.
2. (countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.

   Synonym: faith

   Hypernym: belief system
3. (uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.

4. (uncountable, informal) Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.

   Synonym: (pejorative) superstition

5. (countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
6. (uncountable, obsolete) Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness. [16th-17th c.]

Usage notes

• Some prefer a definition of religion that includes only theistic groups, viewing non-theistic religions as merely philosophical systems.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:religion

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

religion (third-person singular simple present religions, present participle religioning, simple past and past participle religioned)

1. Engage in religious practice.
2. Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
   • 1890, John R. Kelso, Deity analyzed: In six lectures - Page 37

     To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
3. To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
   • 2011, Andrew O'Shea, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate, p 116

     The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.

See also

• Appendix:Religions

References

• religion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• religion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• religion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• religion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ligroine, reoiling

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??li??jo?n]

Noun

religion c (singular definite religionen, plural indefinite religioner)

1. religion

Declension

Further reading

• “religion” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “religion” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Esperanto

Noun

religion

1. accusative singular of religio

French

Etymology

From Middle French religion, from Old French religion, borrowed from Latin religio, religionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.li.?j??/
• Hyphenation: re?li?gion

Noun

religion f (plural religions)

1. religion

Synonyms

• foi
• culte
• dévotion

Derived terms

See also

• religieux
• religieuse
• religiosité

Further reading

• “religion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

religion (plural religiones)

1. religion (system of belief, customs, etc.)

Ladin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin religio, religionem.

Noun

religion m (plural [please provide])

1. religion

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French religion.

Noun

religion f (plural religions)

1. religion

Descendants

• French: religion

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

religion m (definite singular religionen, indefinite plural religioner, definite plural religionene)

1. religion

Synonyms

• tro

Derived terms

• religionsfrihet
• statsreligion

Related terms

• religiøs

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

religion m (definite singular religionen, indefinite plural religionar, definite plural religionane)

1. religion

Derived terms

• statsreligion

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin religi?.

Noun

religion f (oblique plural religions, nominative singular religion, nominative plural religions)

1. religion

Related terms

• religieus

Descendants

• ? English: religion
• French: religion
• Norman: r'ligion
• ? Middle Dutch: religie
  • Dutch: religie
    • ? Indonesian: religi

Papiamentu

Noun

religion

1. religion

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reli?d??u?/

Noun

religion f

1. religion

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?l??ju?n/

Noun

religion c

1. religion

Declension

Related terms

• religionsfrihet
• religionskunskap
• religionslärare
• religionsvetare
• religiös

See also

• ateism
• gud
• konventikel
• kyrklig
• monoteism
• relegera
• religare
• religio
• teologi
• tro

English

Etymology

de- +? convert

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /di??k?nv??t/
• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /di?k?n?v??t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Noun

deconvert (plural deconverts)

1. An apostate.

Verb

deconvert (third-person singular simple present deconverts, present participle deconverting, simple past and past participle deconverted)

1. (intransitive) To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.

   She has deconverted from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.

   They tried to deconvert him.

   • 1933, Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers, Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., p. 80

     Oh, I'm not going to try to deconvert them. No! Let them keep their faith, if they like it.

   • 1961, Catholic University of America, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic University of America Press, etc., p. 236,

     The very devout and older Catholics are naturally inclined to see in the sudden North American fury to deconvert and decatholicize Hispanic America an enterprise that is not inspired by Christ but by the Devil, some sort of spiritual rape of the Latin republics.

   • 2003, Phil Zuckerman, Invitation to the Sociology of Religion, Routledge (UK), ?ISBN, p. 29,

     The sociologist studying Mormonism is not out there to deconvert people, engage in historical or theological debates, destroy worldviews, or the like.

   • 2005, Anne Schiller, 'Our Heart Always Remembers, We Think of the Words as Long as We Live': Sacred Songs and the Revitalization of Indigenous Religion Among the Indonesian Ngaju, read in Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern (editors), Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ?ISBN, p.111,

     Some older adherents of Kaharingan reportedly deconvert from the traditional faith to Christianity for fear that their offspring will not conduct proper mortuary rituals on their behalf when it becomes necessary.

2. (intransitive) To revert or (transitive) to restore.
   • 2000, Linda E. Reksten, Using Technology to Increase Student Learning, Corwin Press, ?ISBN, p. 140,

     Most compression utilities...can convert and deconvert binhex files.

   • 2001, Nuclear Energy Agency, Management of Depleted Uranium: A Joint Report, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, ?ISBN, p. 21,

     Other organisations have investigated similar technologies or are developing alternative technologies to deconvert UF₆ to a stable oxide UF₄ or metal form.

   • 2005, Alexander Gelbukh, LINK (Online service), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 6th International Conference, CICLing 2005, Springer, ?ISBN, p.373,

     To generate the MA corresponding to a UNL graph, generate an “extended instance” of the UNL graph for each possible variant in that language, deconvert these UNL graphs, then continue as with normal translation...

3. (transitive) To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
   • 1963, William E Glynn, Leadership Roles read in Paul Vernon Betters (editor), City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors, City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors, p. 86,

     Roofs were repaired, houses were painted, and rooming houses converted back to single family residences. And meanwhile the owners have spent about $60000 to deconvert the building to its legal use...Orders to deconvert buildings which had been cut up into smaller apartments totaled 156 last year compared with 77 in 1961.

   • 2002, Paul N. Balchin, Maureen Rhoden, Housing Policy: An Introduction, Routledge (UK), ?ISBN, p. 138,

     The supply of furnished accommodation might decline because landlords faced with rent regulation would prefer to occupy the whole of the property themselves, leave it empty or, given a house price boom, deconvert for owner-occupation.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:deconvert.

References

• Problems in deconversion

Anagrams

• converted