a. [See -LESS.]
1. Not practising worship; unworshipping.
1765. J. Brown, Chr. Jrnl., 231. What mad-men are these, who thrust themselves into wicked, worshipless families.
2. Destitute of worship; unworshipped.
1815. Byron, Hebrew Mel., On Jordan’s Banks, 12. How long by tyrants shall thy land be trod? How long thy temple worshipless, Oh God?
1839. Bailey, Festus, xxxiii. (1848), 356. Who gave their names to stars which still roam round The skies, all worshipless.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LII. 455. Long has the god been worshipless!—To prayer!
c. 1914. H. S. Holland, in S. Paget, Mem. (1921), 300. [He felt the Cathedral services] rather limp and worshipless.
