Disbelieve
[dɪsbɪ'liːv]
Definition
(v. t.) Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Discredit, not believe, refuse to credit, hold or consider not to be true.
Editor: Lora
Definition
v.t. to refuse belief or credit to: to deny the truth of esp. of religious dogmas.—ns. Disbelief′; Disbeliev′er.
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Examples
- Forbes, entirely disbelieve in the change of species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I don't disbelieve, and I think there is reason to believe; and still I don't. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is a duty not to believe it, not to disbelieve it, but to weigh judicially the evidence for and against. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The man would soon show himself disreputable enough to make people disbelieve him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists disbelieve in the mutability of species? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- If you obey those who disbelieve, they will turn you back upon your heels, so you will turn back losers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is there anybody hardy enough to disbelieve it? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I therefore ask, Wherein consists the difference betwixt believing and disbelieving any proposition? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Do you think that I will be suspected, perhaps watched, cross-questioned, and disbelieved? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Indians received intelligence of the attack which was intended against them, but disbelieved it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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