#988.  Impiety.—­ N. impiety; sin &c. 945; irreverence; profaneness &c.
adj.; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing &c.v.
     [feigned piety] hypocrisy &c. (falsehood) 544; pietism, cant, pious
fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion[obs3], formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness &c. adj; pharisaism, precisianism[obs3]; sabbatism[obs3], sabbatarianism[obs3]; odium theologicum[Lat], sacerdotalism[obs3]; bigotry &c. (obstinacy) 606, (prejudice) 481; blue laws.
     hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation.
     sinner &c. 949; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist[obs3]; sabbath
breaker; worldling; hypocrite &c. (dissembler) 548; Tartufe[obs3], Mawworm[obs3].
     bigot; saint [ironically]; Pharisee; sabbatarian[obs3], formalist,
methodist, puritan, pietist[obs3], precisian[obs3], religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado[obs3].
     the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of
Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness. 
     V. be impious &c. adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff;
swear &c. (malediction) 908; commit sacrilege.
     snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize. 
     Adj. impious; irreligious &c. 989; desecrating &c.v.; profane,
irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous.
     un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted,
reprobate.
     hypocritical &c. (false) 544; canting, pietistical[obs3],
sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous[obs3], righteous over much.
     bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden. 
     Adv. under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under
the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion. 
     Phr. giovane santo diavolo vecchio[It].

     #989.  Irreligion.—­ N. irreligion[obs3], indevotion[obs3];
godlessness, ungodliness &c. adj.; laxity, quietism.
     skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness
&c. adj[obs3].; want of faith, want of belief; pyrrhonism; bout &c. 485; agnosticism.
     atheism; deism; hylotheism[obs3]; materialism; positivism; nihilism.
     infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity[obs3], rationalism;
neology.
     [person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist,
infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour[obs3], heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene; espri fort[Fr], freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist; materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist[obs3], theophobist[obs3]. 
     V. be irreligious &c. adj.; disbelieve, lack faith; doubt, question
&c. 485.
     dechristianize[obs3]. 
     Adj. irreligious; indevout[obs3]; undevout[obs3]; devoutless[obs3],
godless, graceless; ungodly, unholy, unsanctified[obs3], unhallowed; atheistic, without God.
     skeptical, freethinking; unbelieving, unconverted; incredulous,
faithless, lacking faith; deistical; unchristian, antichristian[obs3].
     worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal; worldly &c. minded. 
     Adv. irreligiously &c. adj.