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▪ I. undeˈvout, a.
(un-1 7 and 5 b.)
a1395Hylton Scala Perf. ii. xlii. (W. de W. 1494), It is bothe olde & drye, vndeuoute & vnsauery in itselfe. c1430Hymns Virgin (1867) 89 Þan þi bodi þat was rank & Vndeuout, Of alle men is bihatid. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. xxv. 178 So vndeuout & remysse in the seruyce of god. 1575Fenton Gold. Epist. (1582) 96 No other thing is the religious man vndeuout, than a candel dead. 1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 70 Men come with as..undevout thoughts and affections to a sermon, as to a play. a1701Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1707) 136 The Greeks being seemingly the most undevout..of any sort of People in the Christian World. 1746Young Nt. Th. ix. 771 An undevout astronomer is mad. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 48 Destitute of Religious reverence,..undevout both in heart and head. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. v. §1. 301 Sceptical and supercilious, frivolous and undevout.
absol.1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 309 If he had willed, of the vndeuout he mighte haue made deuoute.
▪ II. † undeˈvout, v. Obs.
(un-2 6.)
c1440Jacob's Well 283 Abraham kecche awey flyes fro þe sacryfyse; Ryȝt so, kacche out flyes þat vndeuoutyth thouȝt. |