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Undevout   Listen
adjective
Undevout  adj.  See devout.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Undevout" Quotes from Famous Books



... worship. The most thorough-going scientific geniuses have felt most deeply the nobility and grandeur of that infinite harmony and order which their own genius has helped to discover. It has been well said the "undevout astronomer is mad." And it is not only the student of the stars who has intimations of divinity. As Professor Keyser puts it: "The cosmic times and spaces of modern science are more impressive and more mysterious than a Mosaic cosmogony or Plato's crystal spheres. Day is just as mysterious ...
— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... in earnest. This is the price of success in every profession. The law, it is said, is a jealous mistress, and permits no rivals; the indifferent, careless minister is but a blind leader of the blind, and the "undevout astronomer ...
— Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions • George S. Boutwell



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