undevout
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There also exists a somewhat threadbare verse of the poet Young which tells us how "the undevout astronomer is mad."
From The Sources Of Religious Insight by Royce, Josiah
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)
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
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 Adams, Henry
Is a very devout tyrant less tyrannical than an undevout tyrant?
From Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
