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unscriptural

American  
[uhn-skrip-cher-uhl] / ˌʌnˈskrɪp tʃər əl /

adjective

  1. not scriptural; unorthodox, heretical.


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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

Whitefield "endorsed his friend's letter with the words, 'Uncomfortable indeed! and blessed be God, unscriptural!'"

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

Such is the deliberate advice of the author to his countrymen and women—advice in which he believes there is nothing unscriptural or repugnant to common-sense.

From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by Sampson, John

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