undevout
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Devotion, when lukewarm, is undevout; But when it glows, its heat is struck to heaven; To human hearts her golden harps are strung; High heaven’s orchestra chants amen to man.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
Mad, that he is, 'tis true, 83. --, pleasure in being, 129. --, an undevout astronomer is, 157.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
In consequence of this scheme, her habits rather than her opinions, were undevout.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
But presently the big bell began to swing: stroke after stroke, it first aroused, but was fast lulling me, when the chimes struck in and sang all manner of incoherent and undevout lines.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various
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 Henry Adams
