Irreligiosity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being irreligious. uncountable
"1584, William Allen, A True, Sincere and Modest Defence of English Catholics, London: The Manresa Press, 1914, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 126, And it is a singular note of irreligiosity in our days, that these profane heretics and godless persons do prefer human things before divine; the regiment temporal before spiritual; the body before the soul; earth before heaven; regality before priesthood; and this life before the next and all eternity."
- 2 An impious action or utterance. countable
"[…] at first, the sudden insertion of scathing irreligiosities into the mouth of such a previously unflappable character seems a merely academic gesture."
Example
More examples"1584, William Allen, A True, Sincere and Modest Defence of English Catholics, London: The Manresa Press, 1914, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 126, And it is a singular note of irreligiosity in our days, that these profane heretics and godless persons do prefer human things before divine; the regiment temporal before spiritual; the body before the soul; earth before heaven; regality before priesthood; and this life before the next and all eternity."
Etymology
From Latin irreligiōsitās.
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