a. (UN-1 7.)
1643. Milton, Divorce, 3. I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmost date in this Land.
1679. T. Puller, Moder. Ch. Eng., 494. These Divisions (the Character of a Carnal and Unspiritual Temper) … dishonour the Protestant Cause.
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. cxxv. Circumstance, that unspiritual god and miscreator.
1872. Liddon, Elem. Relig., v. 175. Prayer ceases to be itself, by degenerating … into a mechanical and unspiritual routine.
Hence Unspiritually adv.; -ness.
1642. D. Rogers, Naaman, 476. Through that unspiritualnesse of our heart.
1669. Owen, Expos. Ps. cxxx. 352. The more spiritual any man is, the more he sees of his unspiritualness in his spiritual Duties.
1863. H. Allon, Mem. J. Sherman, Coll. Life i. 53. Unspiritualness had generated scepticism, and the lack of faith had extinguished life.
1871. Tylor, Prim. Cult., II. 325. Those … may say … that I have written … unspiritually of spiritual things.
