undevout

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Change one word and it may be said of sacred music as truly as of astronomy, “The undevout composer is mad.”

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

This is as much under the mark as is above it that saying of some one, “An undevout astronomer is mad.”

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

“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

It was not his business to defend Mr. Carlton against the disaffected and the undevout.

From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Furthermore, admitting it to be an open question, neither proved nor disproved, but poised in equal uncertainty, still, it is not immoral nor undevout deeply to desire and fondly to hope a personal immortality.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville