undevout

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I envy not him who is undevout in the presence of so much Beauty.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

“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

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

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 Veblen, Thorstein

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 Boutwell, George S.