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unˈspiritual, a.
(un-1 7.)
1643Milton Divorce 3, I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmost date in this Land. 1679T. Puller Moder. Ch. Eng. 494 These Divisions (the Character of a Carnal and Unspiritual Temper)..dishonour the Protestant Cause. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. cxxv, Circumstance, that unspiritual god and miscreator. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. v. 175 Prayer ceases to be itself, by degenerating..into a mechanical and unspiritual routine.
Hence unˈspiritually adv.; -ness.
1642D. Rogers Naaman 476 Through that unspiritualnesse of our heart. 1669Owen Expos. Ps. cxxx, 352 The more spiritual any man is, the more he sees of his unspiritualness in his spiritual Duties. 1863H. Allon Mem. J. Sherman Coll. Life i. 53 Unspiritualness had generated scepticism. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. II. 325 Those..may say..that I have written..unspiritually of spiritual things. |