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Definition of Indevout
1. a. Not devout.
Definition of Indevout
1. Adjective. Not devout. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indevout
1. not devout [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indevout
Literary usage of Indevout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and by Richard Watson (1850)
"... and indevout, though not, we grant, in equal degrees. The objection, as far
as it has any weight, would be reduced to nothing, were the liturgy repeated ..."
2. The Atlantis by Dublin University College (1859)
"Jonah's mission to Nineveh at a distance, can hardly have been without some kind
of counterpart in the neighbouring countries. Where indevout Jews went ..."
3. Sermons of the Late Dr. James Inglis, Pastor of the First Presbyterian by James Inglis (1820)
"With hearts thus honourably and graciously predisposed, many of you, 1 trust,
brethren, lately encompassed the altar. An indevout communicant! there is an ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"The crowd of pilgrims, disorderly and indevout, pressing up to some popular
shrine, through a nave which was only a vast avenue to the presbytery, ..."
5. From St. Francis to Dante: Translations from the Chronicle of the Franciscan by George Gordon Coulton (1907)
"The men of Parma, complains Salimbene, "cared little for the friars, for they
are ever indevout and hardhearted towards men of religion. ..."
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