Unchristly

a. (UN-¹ 7.)

1865.  H. Bushnell, Christ & His Salvation, i. 10. It [churchcraft] contrives a finer, saintlier, more superlative virtue to be trained in cells and nightly vigils!—poor, unchristly, mean imposture it turns out to be of course.

1880.  World of Cant, x. 73. Both your objects and your means are unchristly.

1901.  Pop. Sci. Monthly, LVIII. 435/1. Ages have … fought over … this subject until history points with scarlet finger to unchristly deeds and impotent creeds, all in His name.

  Hence Unchristliness.

1869.  H. Bushnell, God’s Thoughts Fit Bread for Children, 23–4. The jolly, no-religion songs, the amusing stories and droll illustrations that illustrate nothing, the uncaring manner of the memorizing, school-training recitations,—all these produce, when taken together, an atmosphere of general unchristliness.

1905.  Mrs. J. E. Butler, Autobiog. (1909), 307. The manifest unchristliness of the teaching of many of the churches.