undevout
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Still undevout? unkindled?—Though high-taught, School’d by the skies, and pupil of the stars; Rank coward to the fashionable world!
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
But the Sabbath evening does not find the Jews undevout.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
Truly said the wise man—“An undevout astronomer is mad.”
From All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley
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 William Rounseville Alger
The law, it is said, is a jealous mistress, and permits no rivals; the indifferent, careless minister is but a blind leader of the blind, and the "undevout astronomer is mad."
From Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions by George S. Boutwell
