Public-service corporation \Public-service corporation\ or
sometimes Quasi-public corporation \Quasi-public corporation\
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company,
water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a
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Subreligion \Sub`re*li"gion\, n.
A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi
religious veneration.


Loyalty is in the English a subreligion. --Emerson.