Neither he nor any one can well accuse them of lukewarmness in any other matter affecting the interests either of religion or of liberty.
This lukewarmness proceeds from ingratitude, which comes from a faint light that does not let us see the agonizing and utter love of Christ crucified, and the infinite benefits received from Him.
The Franciscans complained of hislukewarmness to Nicholas V.
The oppressed protestants in catholic kingdoms, disgusted at the lukewarmness and half-apostasy of the Stuarts, looked up to him as their patron and mediator.
I own I see a little less of it and a little more of the other in him; whence a certain lukewarmness with which I have sometimes been reproached.
At the time of the outbreak, between seventy and eighty thousand sterling was owing to firms in Potchefstroom by neighbouring Boers, a sum amply sufficient to account for their lukewarmness in the English cause.
Sir Henry, during his first tenure of office, lost credit with the South African colonists on account of his lukewarmness with reference to the Zulu war, but the course of events has gone far towards justifying his views.
She spoke of the great lukewarmness that prevailed amongst them, of the sordid desire for worldly gain, and of the sinful servility with which they sought the approval of men.
A letter had reached him from his native place, complaining that a certain lukewarmness was beginning to manifest itself among the Brethren thereabouts.
The Church composed of these enthusiastic fanatics broke off all relations with the Italian Spirituals, whose more regulated zeal seemed lukewarmness and backsliding.
The veneration of martyrs rose all the higher the more pitiable the present generation showed in its lukewarmness and worldliness over against the world-conquering faith of that great cloud of witnesses.
In England the dissenters and Methodists provided a healthy protest against the lukewarmness of the State church.
He instanced three cases of lukewarmness and indifference.
And Francis thought himself compelled to clear himself from the charge of lukewarmness in the faith, if not of actual heretical bias, by exercising fresh severities upon the devoted Protestants of his own dominions.
His heart was heavy on account of the disorders in the Church, the falsehood and bitterness of the enemies of the gospel, and the impetuosity or lukewarmness of too many of its friends.
Ulrich von Hutton is also here, from time to time, vehement in his condemnation of the fanaticism of monks and the lukewarmness of princes; and Dr.
Such states of lukewarmness were to be banished by means of fear, but woe to him who permits the feeling of self-righteousness to take the place of the weariness, for “there is no greater unrighteousness than excessive righteousness.
His growing lukewarmness in religion is paving the way for his complete apostasy.
A more real argument is that disestablishment would break up the parochial system; but those who use it impute a discreditable lukewarmness to their own community.
In noticing such lukewarmness as this, surely the writer were to be pardoned, if he were to be betrayed into some warmth of condemnation.
No mere lukewarmness on the part of Ministerialists would suffice.
I am afraid you will think I have become rather Jingo, but any lukewarmness at such a moment would be most dangerous.
He who has received this lively zeal from God is removed far from the fifth deadly sin--lukewarmness and gloominess towards the virtues necessary for salvation.
God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer.
I saw him yesterday morning at Holland House in close confabulation with Walewski, with whom I have no doubt he interchanged warlike sentiments, and complained of the lukewarmness of Aberdeen and Clarendon.
There seemed to be an idea that the St. Cecilia Association would be dispersed, and Schelble appeared very much to dread the lukewarmness of the members during his absence.
It was with jealous eyes that Napoleon saw Russia's growing lukewarmness and marked her evasions of her pact.
Some inkling of the national movement he must have had, for Schwarzenberg's lukewarmness had awakened suspicions of Austria, and Prussia's new strength could not be entirely concealed.
I contracted a habit of reading these books; and this little fault which I observed in my mother was the beginning of lukewarmness in my good desires, and the occasion of my falling away in other respects.
Moreover, it would have fallen into the midst of her lukewarmness (according to Mr. Lewis's chronology) instead of the very beginning.
Bearing in mind the hint St. Teresa gives [11] as to her disposition immediately after her profession, we need not be surprised if the first roots of her lukewarmness show themselves so soon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lukewarmness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apathy; chill; coldness; neutrality
