irreligion

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Irreligion, dissoluteness, and pessimism—supposed naturally to go together—could never prosper; they were incompatible with efficiency.

From Character and Opinion in the United States by Santayana, George

Irreligion is hardly a worse evil in a family than favoritism.

From Precaution by Cooper, James Fenimore

Irreligion -- N. irreligion†, indevotion†; godlessness, ungodliness &c. adj.; laxity, quietism. skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness &c. adj.†; want of faith, want of belief; pyrrhonism; bout &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

The Pit-friends were sturdy practicants who, when they hear that “Ill-nature, Debauchery, and Irreligion were Mathematics and Demonstration, clap and shout, and swear by all that comes from Malmesbury.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

Excessive vanity and inordinate ambition are spoken of as weaknesses rather than as sins; even covetousness itself, though a hateful passion, yet, if not extreme, scarcely presents the face of Irreligion.

From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William