Unbelief \Un`be*lief"\, n. [Pref. un- not + belief: cf. AS.
ungele['a]fa.]
1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.
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2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or
in a divine providence or scheme of redemption.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain. --Cowper.
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Syn: See Disbelief.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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21 Moby Thesaurus words for "unbelief":
apprehension, atheism, disbelief, distrust, doubt, dubiety,
faithlessness, gentilism, incredulity, infidelity, minimifidianism,
misgiving, mistrust, nullifidianism, qualm, secularism, skepticism,
suspicion, unbelievingness, uncertainty, unfaith
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Unbelief \Un`be*lief"\, n. [Pref. un- not + belief: cf. AS.
ungele['a]fa.]
1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.
2. 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. --Cowper.
Syn: See Disbelief.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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