a. 1395. Hylton, Scala Perf., II. xlii. (W. de W., 1494). It is bothe olde & drye, vndeuoute & vnsauery in itselfe.
c. 1430. Hymns Virgin (1867), 89. Þan þi bodi þat was rank & Vndeuout, Of alle men is bihatid.
1502. Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, I. xxv. 178. So vndeuout & remysse in the seruyce of god.
1575. Fenton, Gold. Epist. (1582), 96. No other thing is the religious man vndeuout, than a candel dead.
1656. Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 70. Men come with as … undevout thoughts and affections to a sermon, as to a play.
a. 1701. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1707), 136. The Greeks being seemingly the most undevout … of any sort of People in the Christian World.
1746. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 771. An undevout astronomer is mad.
1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), II. 48. Destitute of Religious reverence,… undevout both in heart and head.
1874. H. R. Reynolds, John Bapt., v. § 1. 301. Sceptical and supercilious, frivolous and undevout.
absol. 1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., III. 309. If he had willed, of the vndeuout he mighte haue made deuoute.
