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unreˈligious, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
1. Irreligious.
1382Wyclif 1 Esdras i. 24 Who so euere weren vnreligious aȝen the Lord. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xxiv. 34 Þan shal..euery vnreligious man sorowe. c1500Melusine xlii. 314 The monkes.., whiche were of euyl, inordinate, & vnrelygious lyuyng. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xi. 74 Nothyng is more vnreligyouse than Jewish religion, whiche consisteth in visible thinges. 1577Fulke Answ. True Christian 11 These vnreligious and vngodly opinions of God. 1606Dekker Double PP Wks. (Grosart) II. 163 Hee dare presse To th' Eaves of Bishops Pallaces: Where, harsh and vn-religious notes Hee singes against their Reuerend Coates. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. iv. 607 If unreligious, let him be at once, Among ten thousand innocents, enrolled A pupil.
2. Non-religious: not connected with religion.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. v. VI. 508 The popular poetry..became profane, unreligious, at length in some parts irreligious. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 88 The difficulties involved in the conception of Creation being, however, totally unreligious. 1898Educat. Rev. XV. 392 In the general movement.., education has become quite unreligious.
Hence unreˈligiously adv., unreˈligiousness.
c1535in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. II. 363 Whom, after myn opynyon, war better to be at large and dymyssed from ther bondage then so vnrelygiously to remayne ayenst ther conscyens. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 30 Although there be great rashnesse in some, and vnreligiousnesse in more. 1847Emerson Poems, Blight 38 We invade them impiously for gain; We devastate them unreligiously. |