religionlessadj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈlɪdʒənləs/,

/rᵻˈlɪdʒn̩ləs/, U.S.

/rəˈlɪdʒənləs/,

/riˈlɪdʒənləs/

Forms: see religion n. and -less suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: religion n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < religion n. + -less suffix.

A. adj.

Without religion; lacking religious belief.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > [adjective] > without

religionless1648

unreligion1673

1648 Mercurius Melancholicus 19–26 June 262 If this be the Religion they Profess, 'Tis good for me to be Religionless.

1654 J. Rogers Sagrir (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. c Their present Lawes for Tithes being without foundation (of God) must fall..as unlawfull, reason-lesse, and religion-lesse Lawes.

1707 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Dial. between Japonese & Formosan 29 Off must it go out of the Book, till at last by throwing out one Article after another, you proceed Religionless.

1750 W. Warburton Julian ii. 192 The gross body of the Jews..returned home religionless as they came.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 118 A worldly, selfish,..religionless old woman.

1889 J. Strong in Minutes National Council Congregational Churches U.S. 364 Teaching a religionless morality.

1919 C. A. Ellwood Social Probl. (rev. ed.) ii. 58 The later religionless systems of Greek ethics proved largely sterile.

1977 Church Times 17 June 7/1 Man, we were told, had moved into a radically religionless phase.

2004 New Yorker 25 Oct. 66/2 Frayn feels himself to be a ‘naturally religionless person’.

B. n.

With the. Religionless people collectively.

ΚΠ

1853 R. W. Williams Raymond de Monthault I. viii. 278 The impious, the religionless, the conscienceless, of the whole Dyke population.

1906 B. von Hutten Pam Decides iii. xv. 328 One of the pathetically absurd flashes of piety that come to the religionless in times of affliction.

1964 New Statesman 14 Feb. 254/3 Literature which Arnold was quite right to suggest would come to occupy the importance of religion for the religionless.

2005 M. Maddox God under Howard vi. 141 Race makes bedfellows of the devout and the religionless in two ways.

Compounds

religionless Christianity n. [after German religionsloses Christentum (D. Bonhoeffer, in a letter to E. Bethge dated 30 April 1944, in the passage translated in quot. 1953)] Christianity dissociated from many of the doctrines and practices of conventional religion.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun] > religionless

religionless Christianity1953

1953 R. H. Fuller tr. D. Bonhoeffer Lett. & Papers from Prison v. 123 If religion is no more than the garment of Christianity—and even that garment has had very different aspects at different periods—then what is a religionless Christianity [Ger. was ist dann ein religionsloses Christentum]?

1963 Times 7 May 13/4 Archbishop Heenan is reported in today's Sunday press to have said that Anglican discussions about religionless Christianity are an embarrassment to Roman Catholics who work for Christian unity.

2004 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 13 SIP [= spirituality in the pub] is one of the versions of ‘religionless Christianity’ developing on the margins of the institutional churches.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	religionless
释义	religionlessadj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈlɪdʒənləs/, /rᵻˈlɪdʒn̩ləs/, U.S. /rəˈlɪdʒənləs/, /riˈlɪdʒənləs/ Forms: see religion n. and -less suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: religion n., -less suffix. Etymology: < religion n. + -less suffix. A. adj. Without religion; lacking religious belief. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > [adjective] > without religionless1648 unreligion1673 1648 Mercurius Melancholicus 19–26 June 262 If this be the Religion they Profess, 'Tis good for me to be Religionless. 1654 J. Rogers Sagrir (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. c Their present Lawes for Tithes being without foundation (of God) must fall..as unlawfull, reason-lesse, and religion-lesse Lawes. 1707 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Dial. between Japonese & Formosan 29 Off must it go out of the Book, till at last by throwing out one Article after another, you proceed Religionless. 1750 W. Warburton Julian ii. 192 The gross body of the Jews..returned home religionless as they came. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 118 A worldly, selfish,..religionless old woman. 1889 J. Strong in Minutes National Council Congregational Churches U.S. 364 Teaching a religionless morality. 1919 C. A. Ellwood Social Probl. (rev. ed.) ii. 58 The later religionless systems of Greek ethics proved largely sterile. 1977 Church Times 17 June 7/1 Man, we were told, had moved into a radically religionless phase. 2004 New Yorker 25 Oct. 66/2 Frayn feels himself to be a ‘naturally religionless person’. B. n. With the. Religionless people collectively. ΚΠ 1853 R. W. Williams Raymond de Monthault I. viii. 278 The impious, the religionless, the conscienceless, of the whole Dyke population. 1906 B. von Hutten Pam Decides iii. xv. 328 One of the pathetically absurd flashes of piety that come to the religionless in times of affliction. 1964 New Statesman 14 Feb. 254/3 Literature which Arnold was quite right to suggest would come to occupy the importance of religion for the religionless. 2005 M. Maddox God under Howard vi. 141 Race makes bedfellows of the devout and the religionless in two ways. Compounds religionless Christianity n. [after German religionsloses Christentum (D. Bonhoeffer, in a letter to E. Bethge dated 30 April 1944, in the passage translated in quot. 1953)] Christianity dissociated from many of the doctrines and practices of conventional religion. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun] > religionless religionless Christianity1953 1953 R. H. Fuller tr. D. Bonhoeffer Lett. & Papers from Prison v. 123 If religion is no more than the garment of Christianity—and even that garment has had very different aspects at different periods—then what is a religionless Christianity [Ger. was ist dann ein religionsloses Christentum]? 1963 Times 7 May 13/4 Archbishop Heenan is reported in today's Sunday press to have said that Anglican discussions about religionless Christianity are an embarrassment to Roman Catholics who work for Christian unity. 2004 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 13 SIP [= spirituality in the pub] is one of the versions of ‘religionless Christianity’ developing on the margins of the institutional churches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1648
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