单词 | godless |
释义 | godlessadj.n. A. adj. Of a person, a system of thought, etc.: having no god; not recognizing or worshipping God; irreligious, ungodly. Also: (of an action, etc.) done without regard to God; impious, wicked. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [adjective] ortrowOE unbelievedc1200 unbelieffulc1380 untrowfulc1380 mislevefula1382 mistrowablea1382 mistrowfula1382 mistrowinga1382 unfaithfulc1384 faithlessa1400 unbelievinga1400 untrothfula1400 misbelieffula1425 out of beliefa1425 untraistfulc1480 untruthfulc1480 godless1528 irreligious1561 incredulous1578 atheistical1588 athean1611 atheal1612 atheous1612 beliefless1612 nullifidian1661 atheist1667 unreligious1814 nihilistic1848 know-nothing1862 nescient1863 non-theistic1863 agnostical?a1870 agnostic1870 non-theist1913 no-God1923 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > [adjective] unrighteouseOE hinderfulc1200 undevouta1300 unreligiousa1382 unkindc1390 unpiteous?c1400 indevout?1504 ungodly1526 godless1528 profane1568 ungodded1579 impious1585 unhalloweda1616 godforsaken?1623 devoteless1650 atheistic1677 undivine1686 Heaven-abandoned1720 indevotea1742 unctionless1842 indevotional1865 link1889 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man To Rdr. f. vij [He] disceaveth him selfe and maketh a mocke of him selfe vnto the godlesse ypocrites and infidels. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. Argt. f. i Ye heathen, whome the Jewes aborred as vnreligious, and godles. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxiii. 34 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 93 See here the godlesse Crue..all happines possesse. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 38 Tissaphernes a most godlesse and faithlesse man. 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry ii. sig. E2v When I thinke of..The godlesse wrong done, to my Generall dead, I raue indeed. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 579 What boots the god-less Giant to provoke? Whose arm may sink us at a single stroke. 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians ix. 117 From that time, his brethren said, God forsook that terrestrial residence, and the warrior became godless. 1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia ii. xii. 249 The bat-like fallacies Of our godless metaphysics. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 9 Military men..rushed thither..to..partake of all sorts of godless delights. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 192 The glory of godless Asia vanished like a dream. 1951 E. Gillis & E. Myles North Pole Boarding House 6 A minister to the spiritual needs of the husky ranch-hands in Alberta's godless foothills. 2009 New Yorker 13 Apr. 57/1 Orwell was on the humanist side, of course—basically an unmetaphysical, English version of Camus's philosophy of perpetual godless struggle. B. n. Usually with plural agreement. Chiefly with the. 1. People who are godless collectively. †Also with singular generic reference. ΚΠ 1534 G. Joye tr. U. Zwingli Dauids Psalter f. 63v Defende my cause from the godlesse [1611 King James an vngodly nation; L. de gente non sancta]. 1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 73 For the miseries that the godlesse haue, operantur mortem, they worke their owne destruction, and euerlastyng perdition. 1648 S. H. Knaves & Fooles in Folio 2 Can the godlesse be for God? 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 811 Behold Gods indignation on these Godless pourd. View more context for this quotation a1732 T. Boston View this & Other World (1775) 225 They have a vail to cast over the godless and profane. 1874 T. De W. Talmage Around Tea-table lxxix. 495 What multitudes of the homeless, and the houseless, and the Godless! 1992 City Limits 2 July 12/2 Leaving the godless to fight out Armageddon on earth. 2002 Oxoniensia 66 87 The defender of an unchanging university against an invasion of the Greekless, the Godless, and—worst of all—women. 2. Usually with capital initial. (The members of) an organization for the propagation of atheism which flourished in the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1947. Also more fully the Union of the (Militant) Godless. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > other specific associations or organizations Tityre-tu1623 Peep o' Day Boys1780 law society1821 kongsi1839 B'nai B'rith1862 Molly Maguire1867 Kennel Club1874 Ethical Society1877 Kyrle Society1877 Molly1877 Sierra Club1891 subak1897 Workers' Educational Association1905 senior1906 W.E.A.1910 Lions Club1922 godless1927 F.P.A.a1940 Diners' Club1950 amnesty1961 Sealed Knot1971 Greenpeace1972 lions1972 Gaysoc1976 Group of Eight1977 Group of Seven1977 meeja1983 G71986 G81988 1927 F. Oleshchuk in 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. 1930 Slavonic 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. 1945 N. Zernov Russians & their Church xvii. 165 In 1929..the leaders of the atheist movement knew better than their teacher that the Christians had arguments at their disposal which were stronger than those familiar to the godless. 1967 G. von Stackelberg in W. C. Fletcher & A. J. 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. 2010 P. Hitchens Rage against God xiii.134 But the Godless kept their right to campaign. Compounds godless florin n. now historical a florin minted without the inscription ‘D.G.’ (Dei Gratia); = graceless florin n. at graceless adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1849 Liverpool Mercury 26 Oct. 6/1 (heading) The ‘godless’ florin. 1859 Mechanics' Mag. 8 July 18/1 The hue and cry raised against Mr. Sheil and his ‘Godless’ Florin..led to the withdrawal, or rather to the discontinuance of the coining of the experimental piece. 1966 P. 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’. Derivatives ˈgodlessly adv. in a godless manner; without God; impiously. ΚΠ 1581 P. Wilburn Checke or Reproofe of M. Howlets Vntimely Shreeching Pref. sig. A Playing thus his parte like himselfe, that is, so impudently and Godlesly. 1611 J. Maxwell Golden Art 169 It were a happy thing, if our Church-robbers..would..make restitution of the Church liuings, which they haue impiously possessed, and godlesly appropriated to their owne priuate vses. 1675 G. Mackenzie Observ. upon 28. Act, 23. Parl. James VI 205 Their just Creditors..are falsly and godlesly defrauded of all payment of their just debts. 1848 Baptist Missionary Mag. Jan. 2 Whatever work of man he may do godlessly, he cannot work ‘a work of God’ apart from God. 1935 L. B. Wright Middle-class Culture Elizabethan Eng. ii. viii. 235 What the preachers declared, the..laity doubtless agreed to in theory, though they godlessly purchased lewd ballads. 2004 Jrnl. Law & Relig. 20 78 Theistic evolutionists reject the premise that evolution necessarily must have occurred godlessly. ˈgodlessness n. [compare earlier ungodliness n. and godliness n.] the fact or state of being godless; (also) an impious act. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > [noun] unbowingnessa1300 impietya1340 undevotionc1340 unpiteousnessa1382 unpiteoustya1382 unpityc1384 unkindnessa1400 undevoutnessc1450 indevotion1526 ungodliness1526 unpiety?1540 godlessness1553 devoutlessness1576 impiousness1599 afgodness1658 indevoutness1842 unblessedness1881 1553 tr. Short Catech. f. lxvi The principal point of godlines is..to know God only..To thys godlynesse is directly contrary godlessnesse. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iii. 33 (margin) Many gods (saith Proclus) is Godlesnesse. 1618 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. IV. O.T. xii. 82 It is an vnmannerly godlessnes to take Gods creatures without the leaue of their maker. 1751 B. Holloway Remarks Dr Sharp's Pieces Elohim & Berith 34 In this Age of Libertinism and Godlessness. 1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. iii. 187 The literal godlessness of the Positive Philosophy. 1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 17 May 388 ‘This book on Poland’, says Cardinal Hinsley in his foreword, ‘shows that Nazism and Moscowism agree in two broad lines—Godlessness and ruthlessness.’ 2009 Independent on Sunday 26 July 30/2 A disastrous period as a nun..led to anti-Christian fervour, raging godlessness and the production of these ‘clever, clever Dawkinsesque’ early books. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1528 |
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