ultrareligious
Americanadjective
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Born in 1906, Gein was raised on an isolated farm in Plainfield, Wis., by an alcoholic father and an ultrareligious mother, whom he adored and defended until her death in 1945.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
To shore up his power, Ayatollah Khamenei worked to build a base of support among the country’s ultrareligious conservatives.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022
While some people can research vaccines on websites like WebMD, many ultrareligious or Haredi Jews disallow using the internet, fearing overexposure to the secular world.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2019
There was some speculation among Knesset members that the defectors might have come from two tiny parties in the coalition, the ultrareligious Agudat Yisrael and Tami, an ethnic party of Sephardic Jews.
From Time Magazine Archive
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