单词 | undevout |
释义 | undevoutadj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > [adjective] unrighteouseOE hinderfulc1200 undevouta1300 unreligiousa1382 unkindc1390 unpiteous?c1400 indevout?1504 ungodly1526 godless1528 profane1568 ungodded1579 impious1585 unhalloweda1616 godforsaken?1623 devoteless1650 atheistic1677 undivine1686 Heaven-abandoned1720 indevotea1742 unctionless1842 indevotional1865 link1889 a1300 Cursor Mundi 28368 Vn-deuote in my praier Seruid i haue a-but þe autere. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xlix. 17 Whi þou vndeuot, takis my haly testament thurght þi filed mouth? a1395 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xlii It is bothe olde & drye, vndeuoute & vnsauery in itselfe. c1430 Hymns Virgin (1867) 89 Þan þi bodi þat was rank & Vndeuout, Of alle men is bihatid. ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxv. 178 So vndeuout & remysse in the seruyce of god. 1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 54 No other thing is ye religious man vndeuoute, then a candle dead. 1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 70 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity Men come with as..undevout thoughts and affections to a sermon, as to a play. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 134 The Greeks being seemingly the most undevout..of any sort of people in the Christian World. 1745 E. Young Consolation 40 An undevout Astronomer is mad. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 468 Destitute of religious Reverence,..undevout both in heart and head. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist v. §1. 301 Sceptical and supercilious, frivolous and undevout. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † undevoutv. Obsolete. (un- prefix2 1d.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > cause to be impious or treat with impiety [verb (transitive)] > render undevoutc1450 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 283 Abraham kecche awey flyes fro þe sacryfyse; Ryȝt so, kacche out flyes þat vndeuoutyth thouȝt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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