unworshipfuladj.
1. Unworthy or devoid of esteem or honour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > [adjective] > not worthy of respect
unworshipfulc1374
respectless1620
unrespectivea1631
unrespectable1764
inestimable1811
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iii. met. iv. 75 Nero..ȝaf somtyme to þe dredeful senatours þe vnworshipful setes of dignites.
c1471 J. Fortescue Wks. (1869) 456 Indygence in them is not only unworschipfull, but yt may do the most harme.
a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) 206 That poor contemptible condition, and unworshipful pickle they found Him in.
1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. v. 50 Its high dignitaries..; its worthships and worships unworshipful:..a mad world, my masters.
2. Characterized by lack of divine worship.
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society > faith > worship > [adjective] > engaged in worship > not
worshipless1765
unworshipping1828
unworshipful1862
1862 F. W. Faber Hymns vi. 353 The wide-spreading world, How lovely..it seems, How full of realities, pure and divine, Yet how bent on unworshipful dreams!
1893 W. A. Bartlett in Advance (Chicago) 21 Dec. So long as the churches are willing to worship in an unworshipful way by proxy.
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