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Definition of Religious right
1. Noun. United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Right
Literary usage of Religious right
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge and Gazetteer by Talbot Wilson Chambers, Frank Hugh Foster, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1889)
"Of a monastery, the lay members, who are servants, mechanics, etc., -who are
admitted into the community through certain religious right». 8. ..."
2. International Law: Private and Criminal by Ludwig von Bar, George Robertson Gillespie (1883)
"This religious right of asylum was useful, and even necessary, ... 3 The only
thing which the religious right of asylum has in common with the international ..."
3. The Christian Science Journal by Mary Baker Eddy (1906)
"... but a lawful and beneficial exercise of a religious right and duty, this may
be shown, and thus bring it within the protection of the Constitution. ..."
4. The Rights of the People: Or, Civil Government and Religion by Alonzo Trévier Jones (1895)
"The first and greatest of all the rights of men is religious right. ... Such is
the origin, such the nature, and such the measure, of religious right. ..."