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 Josiah Royce
An undevout astronomer is mad: True, all things speak a God; but, in the small Men trace out Him: in great He seizes man.
From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
It was not his business to defend Mr. Carlton against the disaffected and the undevout.
From Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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 Thorstein Veblen
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 Richard Falckenberg
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