undevout

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“An undevout astronomer is mad,” said one who had opened his mind to a broad grasp of the wonders which this upper heaven holds in its bosom. 

From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu

If it be true that an undevout astronomer is mad, then was Father Hell the sanest of men.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon

The result, so far as concerts the workman's life of faith, is a proclivity to undevout scepticism.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

"The undevout astronomer is mad," said eighteenth-century deism: to-day we are more apt to think that the uncritical astronomer is dense.

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William

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