Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Indifferent to religion; irreligious.
- adjective Not related to religion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Irreligious.
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- adjective Not
religious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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i don't know but sometimes i have felt that the author is satirising the churchmen by showing how 'unreligious' they are e.g.- cranmer, or to some extent thomas more too.
Wolf Hall 2009
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"religious grounds" has prompted the government to hire private investigators to catch the women doing "unreligious" things.
Macleans.ca 2009
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My objection is to the wholly unreligious ethnocentrism of those whose faith hgas no room for the faith of others, no matter how similar.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists 2009
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My objection is to the wholly unreligious ethnocentrism of those whose faith hgas no room for the faith of others, no matter how similar.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists 2009
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Some conservatives/some very religious people are actually very intelligent and can clearly state their reasoning and you can have a great debate with them because they know their stuff; same goes for liberals or unreligious people.
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But I had a recent conversation with a person who believed that certain groups were unreligious.
On Science and Knowing Steven Barnes 2010
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The misapprehension there seems to be that in order for one to have standing to complain about an unconstitutional endorsement of religion one must be unreligious.
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Here are the things I know: I'm unreligious, moody, an odd parakeet.
Loved, Stupid billy robinson 2010
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Whether you regard them as historical or entirely fictional, and however you regard the mythical-supernatural elements in their stories, their DNA, embedded in the foundations of Western civilization, has given shape to who we are as a people and as individuals, the religious and unreligious alike.
John R. Coats: Five Human Lessons from Genesis That Still Apply Today John R. Coats 2010
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Because he felt it was right for group X to be unreligious?
On Science and Knowing Steven Barnes 2010
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