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单词 unworshipful
释义 unˈworshipful, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Unworthy or devoid of esteem or honour.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. met. iv. (1868) 75 Nero..ȝaf somtyme to þe dredeful senatours þe vnworshipful setes of dignites.c1471Fortescue Wks. (1869) 456 Indygence in them is not only unworschipfull, but yt may do the most harme.a1664Frank Serm. (1672) 206 That poor contemptible condition, and unworshipful pickle they found Him in.1851Carlyle Sterling i. v, Its high dignitaries..; its worthships and worships unworshipful:..a mad world, my masters.
2. Characterized by lack of divine worship.
1862Faber Hymn, ‘The Unbelieving World’ i, The wide-spreading world, How lovely..it seems, How full of realities, pure and divine, Yet how bent on unworshipful dreams!1893W. A. Bartlett in Advance (Chicago) 21 Dec., So long as the churches are willing to worship in an unworshipful way by proxy.
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