Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without religion; not professing or believing in religion; irreligious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of religion.

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  • adjective Lacking religion

Etymologies

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religion +‎ -less

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Examples

  • We must embrace what Bonhoeffer called religionless Christianity.

    Ponderings on a Faith Journey 2008

  • This idea has been around a long time; I just had to face-plant to learn it viscerally, and it seemed to me, a religionless agnostic, the closest thing to what might be termed "active prayer."

    Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011

  • This idea has been around a long time; I just had to face-plant to learn it viscerally, and it seemed to me, a religionless agnostic, the closest thing to what might be termed "active prayer."

    Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011

  • This idea has been around a long time; I just had to face-plant to learn it viscerally, and it seemed to me, a religionless agnostic, the closest thing to what might be termed "active prayer."

    Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011

  • Pace the "last Jews" suggestion, I don't know of stories on the transition to religionless futures (which aren't universal but are certainly common); religion is there and respected (or unpleasantly crusading) or absent (perhaps with a tiny fringe group), not uncomfortably diminishing but still significant.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

  • This idea has been around a long time; I just had to face-plant to learn it viscerally, and it seemed to me, a religionless agnostic, the closest thing to what might be termed "active prayer."

    Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011

  • It was precisely religionless Christianity that he worried about.

    Belief In Action Joseph Loconte 2010

  • Nor am I threatened or frightened by the thought of a religionless-world.

    Jan Phillips: Key to Original Thinking 2008

  • I consider my life a living prayer and I am a religionless person.

    Jan Phillips: Key to Original Thinking 2008

  • I thought the Internet was colourless,religionless and genderless,who ever thought of this is trying to make a fortune on racism.

    A browser just for blacks? | Sync Blog 2008

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