ungodlikeadj.
(un- prefix1 1c.)
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > godlike > not
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a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) viii. 364 But alas, such an ungodlike Religion as this can never be owned by God.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 165 This, I confess, seems to me..a way of working very un-God-like.
a1726 W. Reeves 14 Serm. (1729) 149 The pleasures at God's right hand must be tasteless to an ungodlike filthy spirit.
1854 P. Fairbairn Typology Script. (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 218 How cheering to know this ungod-like state of disorder and confusion is not to be perpetual.
1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi vii. 211 It did not assign to deity that most ungodlike quality, respect of persons.
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