What's the difference between irreligious and non?
Irreligious
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious.
(a.) Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a press conference following the judgment, Ramdev invited the gay community to his yoga ashram where he said he would "cure them of homosexuality", which he described as "unnatural, uncivilised, immoral, irreligious and abnormal".
(2) Fear of stigma, contact with the irreligious world, "yihud" with opposite sex therapists, suspicion of irreligious healers of the Jewish "nefesh", and seeing such a need as a sign of weakness of faith all serve to deter the religious patient from seeking help.
(3) The notion that The Catcher in the Rye is an immoral and irreligious work has largely given way to the antithetical view – that Salinger's chief impulse is specifically religious.
(4) Those who become radicalised typically come from irreligious backgrounds.
(5) Misconceptions about prostitutes pointed out by other authors (Pomeroy, 1965; Gebhard, 1969), such as marked infertility, irreligiousness, and homosexuality, are also contested by this study.
(6) Even though Britain is one of the most irreligious countries on Earth, with just one in 10 attending church each week and a quarter of Britons having no religious beliefs, the Church of England still runs one in four primary and secondary schools in England, while its bishops sit in the House of Lords, making Britain the only country – other than Iran – to have automatically unelected clerics sitting in the legislature.
(7) Caravaggio’s religious paintings give the lie to his irreligious life.
(8) Not that Zionism was ever a totally irreligious movement.
(9) The Catholic church has its own problems, but it shares its principal one with Protestants: Britain is irreligious, if not yet atheist.
(10) This power of the postbag has awed parliamentarians in Holyrood and Westminster, sometimes cowing ministers into backing down, as when Labour dropped plans to force faiths schools to offer some places to irreligious pupils.
Non
Definition:
(a.) No; not. See No, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(3) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(4) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(5) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(6) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(7) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(8) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
(9) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(10) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(11) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(12) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(13) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(14) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(15) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(16) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.
(17) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
(18) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(19) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(20) The BMDs of the DM-HD group were lower in these areas and whole body than that in the non-DM,HD group.