Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an undevout manner; without devotion.
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Examples
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His lengthy examination of his own life, one undevoutly hopes, had proved it to be worth living.
The Immortal 2004
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His lengthy examination of his own life, one undevoutly hopes, had proved it to be worth living.
The Immortal 2004
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At such moments, Dr. Eben, in his heart, thought undevoutly of ministers.
Hetty's Strange History Anonymous
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Because they had no mind to forsake the law of their fathers, or to follow the leading of “sages undevoutly free,” therefore they were able to legislate the better for their children, and felt the less of danger in true freedom of thought.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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"sages undevoutly free," therefore they were able to legislate the better for their children, and felt the less of danger in true freedom of thought.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Our faculties of thought and knowledge must be held firmly together with a strong girdle of modesty, else they cannot possibly thrive; and to have the intellect “undevoutly free,” loosened from the bands of reverence, is a sure pledge and forecast of intellectual shallowness and deformity. [
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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The covetousness and irreverence of the churchmen in former times are well exemplified in another tale given in the same old jest-book, No. lxxi, which, with spelling modernised, goes thus: "Sometime there dwelled a priest in Stratford-on-Avon, of small learning, which undevoutly sang mass and oftentimes twice on one day.
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869
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Our faculties of thought and knowledge must be held firmly together with a strong girdle of modesty, else they cannot possibly thrive; and to have the intellect "undevoutly free," loosened from the bands of reverence, is a sure pledge and forecast of intellectual shallowness and deformity. [
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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