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Definition of non-practising in English: non-practising(US non-practicing) adjective 1Brought up as a member of a particular religion but not following its rules and practices. a non-practising Catholic Example sentencesExamples - From his parents, who were non-practising Jews, he imbibed a love of literature, culture and music.
- He points out Eliot's loose connection with Christianity and admits that "hers was a noncomformist, nonpracticing form of Christian belief."
- If you don't go to Mass every weekend are you non-practising?
- The religion of most Brazilians is Roman Catholic but a majority of the population are non-practicing Catholics.
- - His first wife was Syrian, a non-practising Muslim.
- The 48-year-old Smith, who considers himself a nonpracticing Catholic, has been on a remarkable journey himself.
- Karl Marx, the originator of Communism and a non-practicing Jew himself, had even written a paper on the subject.
- Chabad rabbis, whose mission is to re-engage nonpracticing or less observant Jews, are dispersed around the world to Chabad houses that hold worship services and other events.
- At least a third of these, however, are nonpracticing Catholics.
- And the vast majority of people in this country are probably non-practising Christians anyway.
- Like Schoenberg, both composers were generally nonpracticing members of their religions (Bernstein a Jew and Stravinsky Russian Orthodox), and developed instead their own brands of spirituality.
- These issues included Maurice and her having different religious beliefs - he was a nonpracticing Muslim; she was a devout Christian.
- The first-born son of strict Republican parents, one a nonpracticing Jew and the other an atheist who was raised Presbyterian, Tim gets top grades in the hardest classes.
- The poll found that in families where the father was a regular churchgoer and the mother was non-practising, 44 per cent of the children eventually became regular churchgoers.
- In October, our parish will launch a new program designed to reach out to non-practicing, English-speaking Catholics in our area.
- Something made her hold on to Christianity (her parents were nonpracticing Lutherans), something made her examine theology, try it on and imagine ways to use it.
- Today, many Creoles are nonpracticing Catholics with some agnostics, some atheists, and a very few professing a non-Catholic faith.
- Let me explain by first saying I am not a Mormon, nor am I particularly spiritual, having been born into a family of Sunday-football-watching, nonpracticing Lutherans.
- I am currently a non-practicing Catholic.
- He had been a non-practicing Christian for many years and, like me, was content just to believe in one God.
Synonyms lacking faith, backsliding, recidivist, apostate 2Not currently practising one's profession. Example sentencesExamples - Consequently, harm-reduction approaches are utilized only for the nonpracticing physician.
- I don't know this from personal knowledge, but I'm a nonpracticing lawyer, I used to teach law.
- It was commissioned by a Dominican priest from Newbridge College, who was a non-practising clergyman.
- Eight justices agreed that a nonpracticing lawyer who is also a physician cannot qualify as a legal representative of his 10-year-old daughter, on whose behalf he filed suit.
- The Law Almanac used to actually contain a list of non-practising barristers, as I recollect.
- There is also a dormant pool of 15,000 qualified nurses in the country who are non-practising, according to a major research report published last month.
- A range of solutions existed to retain staff and to attract non-practising nurses back into the system, Mr Hughes said.
- I, a non-practising architect, was chairman.
- After things began to get a little warm, he "retired," passing himself off first as a non-practicing doctor and then a lawyer.
- He is a nonpracticing doctor of veterinary medicine who has spent most of his adult life climbing all over the world's highest mountains.
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