devout
adjective
devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious.
undevout
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a word derived from
devout.
Example Sentences
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Is a very devout tyrant less tyrannical than an undevout tyrant?
From Good Sense by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
There also exists a somewhat threadbare verse of the poet Young which tells us how "the undevout astronomer is mad."
From The Sources Of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce
On the south of the common, near the station, stood a red-brick building called the Moot Hall, which was a kind of church for the very undevout population.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
The danger was all the greater because men of science covered it with "larger synthesis," and poets called the undevout astronomer mad.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Mad, that he is, 'tis true, 83. --, pleasure in being, 129. --, an undevout astronomer is, 157.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
