Unbeliever
[,ʌnbɪ'liːvə(r)] or [,ʌnbɪ'livɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.
(n.) A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sceptic, infidel, disbeliever, deist, MISCREANT, free-thinker.
Typist: Ollie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BELIEF]
Checker: Stella
Examples
- And were all this otherwise, wouldst thou have us show a worse conscience than an unbeliever, a Hebrew Jew? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In her soul she's a devilish unbeliever, common as dirt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Issus, you see, has not struck me dead, nor is she rescuing her faithful Xodar from the clutches of the unbeliever who defamed her fair beauty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Base unbeliever, answered one of his guards, when thou hast seen thy lair, thou wilt not wish thy daughter to partake it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And now, having such an auxiliary, you must do your best to show the unbelievers that you are right. Plato. The Republic.
- Muhammad began to preach more openly, to teach the doctrine of a future life, and to threaten idolaters and unbelievers with hell fire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was like the stiff-necked unbelievers of Scripture, who must be annihilated to be convinced. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Pierce