ungodliness

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Since the days of Bartholomew Fair, and before, professional carnivals have been held up as examples of ungodliness.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Greek they said atheos and atheotes; to these the English words ungodly and ungodliness correspond rather closely.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg

The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

Relatives sold one another into thraldom; lewdness and ungodliness were become habitual; and cowardice had increased to such a degree that, according to the old chroniclers, one Dane would often put ten Anglo-Saxons to flight.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

As godliness increases the sense of ungodliness becomes more acute, and so feelings never accurately gauge real assimilation to God.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)