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Word Meanings - UNHOLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious. -- Un*ho"li*ly, adv. -- Un*ho"li*ness, n.

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  • BLASPHEMOUS
    Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy
  • TEMPORALNESS
    Worldliness. Cotgrave.
  • BLASPHEMOUSLY
    In a blasphemous manner.
  • SECULAR
    Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious
  • TEMPORAL
    Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.
  • WICKER
    1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as
  • TEMPORALTY
    1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
  • WICKEDLY
    In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally. I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. 2 Sam. xxiv. 17.
  • IRRELIGIOUS
    1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious
  • SECULARIZATION
    The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
  • UNSANCTIFICATION
    Absence or lack of sanctification. Shak.
  • IRRELIGIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
  • UNCONSECRATE
    To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate. South.
  • IRREVERENTLY
    In an irreverent manner.
  • SECULARIZE
    1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe. 3. To
  • TEMPORALITY
    1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
  • WICK; WICH
    A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players. (more info) of places, perhaps fr. Icel. vik an inlet, creek, bay. See Vicinity, 1. A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise
  • WICKET
    The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working. Raymond. Wicket door, Wicket gate, a small door or gate; a wicket. See def. 1, above. Bunyan. -- Wicket keeper , the player who stands behind the wicket to catch the balls and endeavor to
  • PROFANER
    One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language. Hooker.
  • SECULARITY
    Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness. A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible. I. Taylor.
  • BRUNSWICK GREEN
    An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
  • BAILIWICK
    The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
  • UNSECULARIZE
    To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
  • BRUNSWICK BLACK
    See BLACK
  • WICKED
    Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
  • SUPRATEMPORAL
    Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.

 

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