unscriptural
Americanadjective
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I wear pants to work as a seminary president almost every day, and no one has ever accused me of donning transgressive unscriptural attire.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2024
His early memoirs find a balance between outrage and subtle irony—those angry, understated phrases: “an unscriptural institution”; “the thoughtful know the rest”—in describing the wrenching effects of slavery on the human soul.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
So did a new generation of Catholic Augustinian thinkers and the heretical Jansenists of the 17th and 18th centuries, who dismissed limbo as an unscriptural theory too ardently promoted by their enemies the Jesuits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Credit to any extent we might have had, could we conscientiously have availed ourselves of it, but this we felt to be unscriptural in itself, as well as inconsistent with the position we were in.
From A Retrospect by Taylor, James Hudson
It seemed to him unscriptural for a servant of Christ to put himself under the control and direction of any one but the Lord.
From The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller by Wayland, H. L. (Heman Lincoln)
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