Unworshipful

a. [UN-¹ 7.]

  1.  Unworthy or devoid of esteem or honor.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., III. met. iv. (1868), 75. Nero … ȝaf somtyme to þe dredeful senatours þe vnworshipful setes of dignites.

c. 1471.  Fortescue, Wks. (1869), 456. Indygence in them is not only unworschipfull, but yt may do the most harme.

a. 1664.  Frank, Serm. (1672), 206. That poor contemptible condition, and unworshipful pickle they found Him in.

1851.  Carlyle, Sterling, I. v. Its high dignitaries…; its worthships and worships unworshipful:… a mad world, my masters.

  2.  Characterized by lack of divine worship.

1862.  Faber, Hymn, ‘The Unbelieving World,’ i. The wide-spreading world, How lovely … it seems, How full of realities, pure and divine, Yet how bent on unworshipful dreams!

1893.  W. A. Bartlett, in Advance (Chicago), 21 Dec. So long as the churches are willing to worship in an unworshipful way by proxy.