Nazarene

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Naz=a=rene

CIDE DICTIONARY

Nazarene, prop. n. [L. Nazarenus, Gr. , fr. Nazareth.].

•  A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Nazarene, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a (prec. by the) Christ. b (esp. in Jewish or Muslim use) a Christian.
2 a native or inhabitant of Nazareth.
3 a member of an early Jewish-Christian sect.
--adj. of or concerning Nazareth, the Nazarenes, etc.

Etymology

ME f. LL Nazarenus f. Gk Nazarenos f. Nazaret Nazareth

ROGET THESAURUS

Nazarene

Irreligion

N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.