lukewarmness

Ossipon tried to exculpate the lukewarmness of his past conduct.

He'd suspected all along that every evidence of Shipton's lukewarmness could be traced to his wife.

Lukewarmness was far from his prevailing mood as he strode onwards.

A middle course is really a compromise with evil, it is the same as lukewarmness."

A sixth sermon was part of a projected trilogy on moral and spiritual lukewarmness.

The enthusiasm of his immediate adherents, however, made up for the silence and lukewarmness of others.

He is not afraid of confronting lukewarmness.

"A defect in our love towards God, or lukewarmness in piety, is here removed."

Cromwell, and the ever-growing Independent element, quickly came to suspect their commander of lukewarmness in the cause.

It is noteworthy that Anthony Mary reserves the term "sermon" only to his talk on lukewarmness.

"Laodicea" would follow wherein lukewarmness would be the "dominant Church attitude at the end."

Five centuries and more, T for that lukewarmness was fain to pace Round the fourth circle.

When Montrose joined the king's side, Seaforth too was suspected of lukewarmness for the Covenant.

In the case of Sermon VI, the second part is a detailed explanation of lukewarmness.

The White House seemed to recognize this, as evidenced by the lukewarmness of its support for Lincoln in the waning days of the campaign.

Spanish-speaking historians tend to assess his political and military achievements, sometimes deliberately avoiding issues such as the king's lukewarmness (or even support) towards Catholic fanaticism.

I had to oblige that, to protect the faithful from lukewarmness and indifference in the faith from unbelief and atheism.

Elyot was probably suspected, like Vaughan, of lukewarmness in carrying out the king's wishes, but was nevertheless blamed by Protestant writers.

James Yates, counsel to Assembly Speaker Mel Miller, said there was a sense of "lukewarmness" about the bill.

During her non-appearance, the Priest charges him with lukewarmness in the cause of Apollo, and he avows his firm intention to put all Christians to death.

There were some who accused him of lukewarmness in his adopted religion, and others who put it down to greed of wealth and reluctance to incur expense.

A few such broken wrecks as I are left, with the fire of our youth all burned out and nought left but the ashes of lethargy and lukewarmness.'

O the coldness and negligence of our times, that we so quickly decline from the former love, and it is become a weariness to live, because of sloth and lukewarmness.

She distinguished herself by her zeal . . . in this business, and is now so thoroughly enlisted in the cause of her country that she reproaches me with lukewarmness."

Regardless of popular lukewarmness at the start, and of persistent official thwarting throughout, he roused the conscience of the nation to a sense of its duty and of its honor.