'I see hundreds who have what you call religion, with whom I should scorn to change my irreligion.'

Irreligion is hardly a worse evil in a family than favoritism.

Mrs. Behn suffered enough at the hands of supercilious prudes, who had the barbarity to construe her sprightliness into lewdness; and because she had wit and beauty, she must likewise be charged with prostitution and irreligion.

His irreligion, however, seems to have been rather the fluctuating of a mind that had lost its hold on truth for a time, than the scepticism of one confirmed in error.

Their sombre religion has passed into a sombre irreligion.

Doubt N. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit, miscreance^; infidelity &c (irreligion) 989

Incredulity N. incredulousness^, incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism^; want of faith &c (irreligion) 989

3. Works of righteousness and mercy are part of the worship of God, and so far fall under the civil magistrate, that he ought to restrain men from irreligion, that is, injustice, faith-breaking, oppression, and all other evil works that are plainly evil.

He did so, in the approved way in that day of irreligion, in a political squib.

He shuddered at the idea of irreligion.

" Of course Dr. Potter looked upon this production as the height of irreverence and irreligion, and proposed to excommunicate the authors of it.

So, then, that Michelangelo stupendous in his fame, that Michelangelo renowned for prudence, that Michelangelo whom all admire, has chosen to display to the whole world an impiety of irreligion only equalled by the perfection of his painting!

man[B]but it dies as surely, when you prune it of its manifold incidents of pollution and irreligion.

How strongly and painfully it argues the immorality and irreligion of the American people, that they should look so complacently on the "amalgamation," which tramples the seventh commandment under foot, and yet be so offended at that, which has the sanction of lawful wedlock!

How strongly and painfully it argues the immorality and irreligion of the American people, that they should look so complacently on the "amalgamation," which tramples the seventh commandment under foot, and yet be so offended at that, which has the sanction of lawful wedlock!

After frequent expostulations upon the unreasonableness of my sorrow, and innumerable protestations of everlasting regard, he at last found that I was more affected with the loss of my innocence, than the danger of my fame, and that he might not be disturbed by my remorse, began to lull my conscience with the opiates of irreligion.

How the Saints Were Brought to Repentance He put his torch to the tinder of irreligion at the first Sunday meeting after his return.

How we helped NapoleonThe Revolution and the Two GermanicsReligious Resistance of Austria and RussiaIrreligious Resistance of Prussia and EnglandNegative Irreligion of Englandits Idealism in SnobbishnessPositive Irreligion of Prussia; no Idealism in AnythingAllegory and the French RevolutionThe Dual Personality of England; the Double BattleTriumph of Blucher.

How we helped NapoleonThe Revolution and the Two GermanicsReligious Resistance of Austria and RussiaIrreligious Resistance of Prussia and EnglandNegative Irreligion of Englandits Idealism in SnobbishnessPositive Irreligion of Prussia; no Idealism in AnythingAllegory and the French RevolutionThe Dual Personality of England; the Double BattleTriumph of Blucher.

This vocabulary became grievously unfashionable at the Reformation, and was at once swept away by the torrent of irreligion, blasphemy, and indecency, which were at that period deemed necessary to secure conversation against the imputation of disloyalty and fanaticism.

His onset was violent: those passages, which while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness charge.

Whoever makes this his choice, when the other was in his power, may he go off the stage unpitied, complaining of neglect and poverty, the just punishments of his irreligion and folly!"

Irreligion is not only avowed, but boasted; and the pestilence that used to walk in darkness, is now destroying at noonday.

But the sceptical and the unbelieving have likewise been obliged to change their ground and their tone, and no one with any self-respect or care for his credit even as a thinker and a man would like to repeat the superficial and shallow flippancy and irreligion of the last century.

He could not bear that judgment so unjust should go forth against us, and, moved with indignation, he asked leave to defend his brethren, and to prove that there was in them no kind of irreligion or impiety.