Word Finder - ungodly

definition

Of a person: lacking reverence for God; of an action: not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings.

synonyms

• impious
• irreligious
• irreverent

definition

Immoral, sinful, or wicked.

example

People often turn to ungodly ideas as an emotional response to trauma.

definition

Extreme; unreasonable.

example

We had to start our journey at an ungodly hour.

synonyms

• dreadful
• indecent
• outrageous

The ungodly will be punished mercilessly, and in exact correspondence to their sins.'

The Conqueror beyond doubt sincerely aimed at being a religious reformer both in his duchy and in his kingdom, while it is needless to say that his immediate successor was exceptionally ungodly, whether among Normans or among other men.

Thus, for example, the numerous psalms in which the poets, though speaking perhaps, not as individuals but as members of a class, describe themselves as poor and afflicted at the hands of certain ungodly men, who appear to be Jews, can hardly have been originally collected by the Temple choirs.

His later years were clouded with many sorrows and disappointments; his relations with Governor Joseph Dudley were unfriendly; he lost much of his former prestige in the Church - his own congregation dwindled - and in the college; his uncle John Cotton was expelled from his 8 8 4 _ Mather, Increase charge in the Plymouth Church; his son Increase turned out a ne'er-do-well; four of his children and his second wife died in November 1713; his wife's brothers and the husbands of his sisters were ungodly and violent men; his favourite daughter Katherine, who "understood Latin and read Hebrew fluently," died in 1716; his third wife went mad in 1719; his personal enemies circulated incredible scandals about him; and in 1724-1725 he saw a Liberal once more preferred to him as a new president of Harvard.

I miss him so ungodly much it hurts; it hurts sooo bad.

He wished for the complete independence and self-government of the Church, with the right of excommunication to be used against the ungodly.

It assumes the moral distinction of the righteous and the ungodly, and seeks a solution for the problem of the lack of harmony of present character and condition.

God " justifietla the ungodly."

My sole hope for heaven lies in the full atonement made upon Calvary's cross for the ungodly.

Oh, how it came into my soul that Christ had died for an ungodly sinner just like me!

I found my brother in the marketplace, calling lost sinners to Him that justifieth the ungodly.

Casts himself on the mercy of God who justifies the ungodly.

God comes on the Day of the Lord, in Christ, to judge the ungodly!

The apostle speaks of ' ungodly deeds ungodly committed, ' Jude 15.

Now the church in the west is in desperate need of godly leaders but not ungodly dictators.

With "the profane, ungodly, presumptuous multitude" (to quote Baxter's Saint's Rest, 16 5 o, pp. 344, 345), however, these "processions and perambulations" appear to have been very popular, though "only the traditions of their fathers."

Oh, how it came into my soul that Christ had died for an ungodly sinner just like me !

God comes on the Day of the Lord, in Christ, to judge the ungodly !

And Jonathan began to judge the people, and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel.

Secondly, listening to lies leads to ungodly living.

It hath been made a question, Whether an ungodly man can be a minister?

Presumably he ought to have said something to Jeroboam about the ungodly behavior.

Well that an ungodly world could not reproach them, asking, Where is now thy God?

I have twin toddlers who wake up at an ungodly hour every morning.

When this devout maiden began to denounce the ungodly cardinal who was allied with heretics, her confessor - in Richelieu's service - succeeded in inducing her to become a nun.

Groen was violently opposed to Thorbecke, whose principles he denounced as ungodly and revolutionary.