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noun

Unbelief n.

The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.

Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. "Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain."

Synonyms: See Disbelief.

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Etymology of 'Unbelief'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unbelief" Quotes from Famous Books

... the theory of the evolution of these into species, even while for the present we hold the hypothesis of a further evolution in cool suspense or in grave suspicion. In respect to very many questions a wise man's mind rests long in a state neither of belief nor unbelief. But your intellectually short-sighted people are apt to be preternaturally clear-sighted, and to find their way very plain to positive conclusions upon one side or the other of ...

— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray

... and hast thou not been heard? Thou dost but fix me in mine unbelief. Did any god exist he would have heard thy supplications. Come, let us make an end of this. There are sweeter themes I would discuss. Where hast thou been, these many months? Not here in this ...

— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller

... proofs as to why such things should be; but that they are, is indubitable. The miracles enacted now are silent ones, and are worked in the heart and mind of man alone. Unbelief is nearly supreme in the world to-day. Were an angel to descend from heaven in the middle of a great square, the crowd would think he had got himself up on pulleys and wires, and would try to discover his apparatus. Were he, in wrath, ...

— A Romance of Two Worlds • Marie Corelli

... the Puritans, and their absorption in one idea; but that idea has left its birthmark of gloom on all their descendants, and one cannot forget that Puritanism was the soil from which sprang the unbelief of today." ...

— The Philistines • Arlo Bates

... pleasues, which his purse could give, Freely to seize, and while he lived, to live." Much time he pass'd in this important strife, The bliss or bane of his remaining life; For converts all are made with care and grief, And pangs attend the birth of unbelief; Nor pass they soon;—with awe and fear he took The flowery way, and cast back many a look. The youths applauded much his wise design, With weighty reasoning o'er their evening wine; And much in private 'twould their mirth ...

— The Borough • George Crabbe

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