ungodliness

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Since the days of Bartholomew Fair, and before, professional carnivals have been held up as examples of ungodliness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is the course of moral philosophy, “The grace of God hath appeared, to teach us to deny ungodliness, and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this world.”

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

The reading of the 'Book of Sports' had been interdicted, and from their pulpits they lectured their congregations on the ungodliness of the Sabbath amusements.

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony

And man, so capable in his nature of this ungodliness, boasts himself made after God's own image.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry

In Greek they said atheos and atheotes; to these the English words ungodly and ungodliness correspond rather closely.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg