undevout
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Still undevout? unkindled?—Though high-taught, School’d by the skies, and pupil of the stars; Rank coward to the fashionable world!
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
The character of modern thought would appear to a Greek returned to earth very sober, unsplendid, undevout, and intrusive.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
It was not his business to defend Mr. Carlton against the disaffected and the undevout.
From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
The danger was all the greater because men of science covered it with "larger synthesis," and poets called the undevout astronomer mad.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry
It may well enough be true that the designedly untruthful historian, like the undevout astronomer, is an anomaly, for inaccuracy comes not from purpose, but from neglect.
From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford
