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godless

ˈgɑdləs
WordNet
Conversation between the godless prince and the devout general next to a garden vase. There is a dog next to the general.
Conversation between the godless prince and the devout general next to a garden vase. There is a dog next to the general.
  1. (adj) godless
    not revering god
Illustrations
Father of the Godless.
Father of the Godless.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Godless
    Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. godless
    Having or acknowledging no God; impious; atheistical; ungodly; irreligious; wicked.
  2. godless
    [capitalized] Lacking the presence of God; removed from divine care or cognizance; Godforsaken.
  3. godless
    Synonyms Ungodly, Unrighteous, etc. See irreligious.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Godless
    living without God: impious: atheistical
Quotations
Patrick Buchanan
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
Patrick Buchanan
Harriet Beecher Stowe
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Anita Brookner
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. god; Ger. gott, Goth. guth, Dut. god; all from a Teut. root gutha, God, and quite distinct from good.

Usage in the news

Modern liberalism is willfulness writ large -- a godless ideology that rests upon the caprice of central planners. spectator.org

Turns out there's a lot more to birthin' babies than you might have learned in your godless socialist public-school health class. motherjones.com

Godless commies invaded America once before. austinchronicle.com

Godless conference scheduled in Little Rock. pbcommercial.com

How a Godless Cosmos Creates. nyc.org

Howard Bloom tackles the question of how a godless cosmos creates. nyc.org

He's attacked Animal Planet as godless propaganda directed at children. motherjones.com

Democrats have difficulty with their godlessness. sun-sentinel.com

Godless but Loyal to Heaven. innipegfreepress.com

Godless conference scheduled in Little Rock. pbcommercial.com

And like many who profess godlessness openly, he has been punished. 7.economist.com

First, a whack- job congressman from Texas, Louie Gohmert, went on the radio and blamed Friday's mass murders at an Aurora, Colo. Movie theater on our nation's increasing "godlessness.". msbusiness.com

God never intended the world to be run by godless counsel and perverted ethics, but that is the alternative when we are silent. ministrytodaymag.com

I wonder whether he is just godless or if he honestly believes he is God's right hand . ashingtontimes.com

Maybe woolly-minded, gutless, godless, Europeans had it coming. msnbc.msn.com

Usage in literature

But the officer of the day had told a different tale, and the godless array at the bachelor mess was still having fun with it. "A Soldier's Trial" by Charles King

You godless creature, you are making fun of religion! "Black Diamonds" by Mór Jókai

This also shall be my salvation; For a godless man shall not come before him. "The Bible Story" by Rev. Newton Marshall Hall

She wept and prayed, and said she could find no repose because her parents were so godless. "Villa Eden:" by Berthold Auerbach

Here in His very first act He is met by the spirit of hatred, and jealousy, and godlessness which was at last to compass His death. "The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I" by Marcus Dods

Is not that tyrannical and godless? "On the Heights" by Berthold Auerbach

God have mercy on such a godless Christianity as that! "Weighed and Wanting" by Dwight Moody

I made no secret of my godlessness and afterwards regretted it. "The Children of the World" by Paul Heyse

They must be a godless set. "Barbarossa and Other Tales" by Paul Heyse

In a word, their whole carriage was comical, strange and mad: and moreover sinful and godless. "The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim" by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Usage in poetry
"Neither by virtue, speech nor art
Nor hope of grace to win;
But godless innocence of heart
That never heard of sin:
He with the godless never walks,
For God is ever in his view;
His tongue of truth and virtue talks—
His heart is truth and virtue too.
And ye, the dead,
Godless on earth, and gone astray,
Alas, your hour is past away,--
The Judge is just; for you
it now were sin to pray.
When they who so thoughtlessly revell'd last night
In the temples of pleasure and godless delight,
Bring their tribute to-day to the house of the Lord,
All stain'd with their recent contempt of his word?
They trail me, these three godless knaves,
Past every church that saints and saves,
Nor stop till, where the cold sea raves
By Lido's wet accursed graves,
They scoop mine, roll me to its brink,
And… on thy breast I sink
Hence, with thy cross of faith upreared,
Thy book of promise widely spread;
While godless thousands scoffed and jeered,
Thou didst portray the life Christ led,
And how he bore sin's chastening rod
To win the erring back to God.