: not acknowledging a deity or divine law
godlessness
noun
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treated the God-fearing and the godless with equal respect and compassion
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Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American.
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
My apartment—formerly a godless zone for only the profane, not the sacred—now feels holy.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
That will give him the ability to rail against the godless heathens and Commies who have taken over the courts and spurned this nation’s supposedly integral Christian character, which is of course what this is really all about.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
My apartment—formerly a godless zone for only the profane, not the sacred—now feels holy.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
That will give him the ability to rail against the godless heathens and Commies who have taken over the courts and spurned this nation’s supposedly integral Christian character, which is of course what this is really all about.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
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“Godless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godless. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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