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Definition of Godlessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Godlessly
Literary usage of Godlessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs by Robert Henry Charles (1908)
"... Christ, acting godlessly], deceiving Israel, and stirring up against it great
evils from the Lord. 3. And ye shall deal lawlessly together with Israel, ..."
2. The City of God by Augustine, Marcus Dods (1871)
"For although, if you choose to regard the matter attentively, you will see that
there is nothing advantageous to those who live godlessly, as every one ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Abel speaks How dar'st thou speak so godlessly! Hast thou no fear of endless hell ?
Cain speaks What you do call damnation's spell! ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"... of ' Sternheim' is going to hang round her second daughter's neck, he would
gnash his teeth and swear most godlessly, in his usual praiseworthy fashion. ..."
5. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912)
"He would seize our field of labor, Hut and garden, godlessly: Since he lords it
as our neighbor, We to him must subject be. PHILEMON. ..."
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