: 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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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.
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Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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.
tick, tick … BOOM!
—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
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Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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.
tick, tick … BOOM!
—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
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“Godless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godless. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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