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godless, a.|ˈgɒdlɪs|
[f. god n. + -less; cf. Du. goddeloos, G. gottlos, ON. guðlauss (Sw., Da. gudlös), Goth. gudalaus.]
a. Of persons, systems of thought, etc.: Without a god; not recognizing or worshipping God; irreligious, ungodly.
b. Of actions, etc.: Done without regard to God; impious, wicked. godless florin (see quot. 1897).
1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man Pref. 7 [He] disceaveth him selfe and maketh a mocke of him selfe vnto the godlesse ypocrites and infidels. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Heb. Argt., Y⊇ heathen, whome the Jewes aborred as vnreligious and godles. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxiii. iii, See here the godlesse crew..all happiness possesse. 1623Bingham Xenophon 38 Tissaphernes a most godlesse and faithlesse man. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry ii. ii, When I think of..The godless wrong, done to my general dead, I rave indeed. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 811 Behold Gods indignation on these Godless pourd. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 579 What boots the godless giant to provoke, Whose arm may sink us at a single stroke? 1858Sears Athan. ii. xii. 249 The bat-like fallacies Of our godless metaphysics. 1861Thackeray Four Georges i. 9, Military men..rushed thither..to.. partake of all sorts of godless delights. 1870[see graceless a. 1 a]. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 192 The glory of godless Asia vanished like a dream. 1897N. & Q. Ser. viii. XII. 13 Nov. 387/2 The florin which came from the Mint in 1849 without the words ‘Dei gratia’ is now called both godless and graceless. 1966P. A. Rayner Coin Collecting for Amateurs v. 84 The florins of 1849 are known as ‘godless’ florins, because they omitted the Queen's titles ‘Dei Gratia’.
c. the Godless [Russ. bezbózhnik]: the title of a union (and its press organs) in Soviet Russia, having for its primary object the suppression of religion.
1927Oleshchuk in The Anti-Religious No. 10, The Union of the Godless makes every effort in order to transform the International Union of the Godless into an active staff of class conflict,..and to make the fight with religion in the West a factor in the class struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie. 1930Slavonic Rev. Mar. 518 The Union of the Godless is a semi-State institution... The Union organises special ‘cells of the Godless’ in factories, villages and units of the Red Army. 1967G. von Stackelberg in Fletcher & Strover Relig. & Search for New Ideals in U.S.S.R. 95 Publication of atheist propaganda was..revived in 1947 when the Association of Militant Godless was dissolved and the Society for Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge established.
Hence ˈgodlessness, the fact or state of being godless; an impious act.
1553Short Catech. 66 a, The principal point of godlines is..to know God only..To thys godlynesse is directly contrary godlessnesse. 1587Golding De Mornay iii. 29 marg., Many gods, saith Proclus, is godlesnesse. 1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xii. iv, It is an unmannerly godlesseness to take Gods creatures without the leave of their maker. 1866Liddon Bampt. Lect. iii. 187 The literal godlessness of the Positive Philosophy. 1870Athenæum 19 Nov. 653 That they should pass their lives in utter..Godlessness. |