Unbelieving
[,ʌnbi'li:viŋ]
Definition
(a.) Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.
(a.) Believing the thing alleged no to be true; disbelieving; especially, believing that Bible is not a divine revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a supernatural person.
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Examples
- St Mary, said the Abbot, crossing himself, an unbelieving Jew, and admitted into this presence! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Dreamer, fool, boaster were among the appellations bestowed upon him by unbelieving critics. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A Cistertian Prior sends a letter to a soldier of the Temple, and can find no more fitting messenger than an unbelieving Jew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But, was slowly, distinctly read, the fearful, the unbelieving, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What I am going to tell is only another version of the legend of Cadmus; but our unbelieving generation will be slow to accept such a story. Plato. The Republic.
- Thou-- Pilar said to him unbelieving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The unbelieving dog, answered Anwold, kennels in the cell next your holiness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Unbelieving dog, said the Templar to Isaac the Jew, as he passed him in the throng, dost thou bend thy course to the tournament? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If he neglects, I will have the unbelieving villain's head. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The word 'Mother' suggested other maternal counsels given long ago, and received with unbelieving protests. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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