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undevout

undevout adjective: not devout.

Adjective

undevout (comparative more undevout, superlative most undevout)

  1. Not devout.
    • If we could but remember that, there would be no fear of our being ungodly, irreligious, undevout.1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints' Day and Other Sermons
    • Larry was undevout, careless, thinking little of spiritual things, so little, that he had scarcely troubled himself either to question or to accept what he had been taught, but he was quick to respond to emotion of any kind; now he listened, with an unaccustomed reverence, to Barty's voice...1920, E. Oe. Somerville, Martin Ross, Mount Music

Forms of undevout

comparativemore undevout
superlativemost undevout

Origin of undevout

From un- + devout.

Words formed from undevout

Questions about undevout

What does undevout mean?
Undevout means not devout.
What part of speech is undevout?
Undevout is an adjective.

Words near undevout in the dictionary

  1. undevotedly
  2. undevotedness
  3. undevotion
  4. undevotional
  5. undevoured
  6. undevout
  7. undevoutly
  8. undevoutness
  9. undewed
  10. undewy
  11. UNDEX

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