Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being faithless, in any sense of that word.

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  • noun The quality of being faithless

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  • noun unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous

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Examples

  • In many respects, they find you antagonizing the same way they find Glenn Reynolds antagonizing - like Jesuits, they really think once they had you, they had the right to keep you, and your faithlessness is your failure, not theirs.

    Oppressed by the label "Republican"? Ann Althouse 2006

  • It was gloomy, that which wrote itself on the paper, nor did it especially apply to the case in point, "but then," she reminded herself, bitterly recalling the faithlessness of Hattie, of Rosalie, of

    Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart George Madden Martin 1901

  • [54] 'In his own mode of acting,' must be understood here of his honourable mode of acting; though there are also _malae artes_, such as faithlessness, cunning, flattery, and the like.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • But this, so far from proving any "faithlessness," shows, on the contrary, an entire faith in their Art, that it was able to accomplish what was required of it, and needed not to be bolstered up by anything external.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

  • But when she beheld the letter again, she read again the opprobrious word "faithlessness" in her husband's handwriting.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • I know the word 'faithlessness' sounds very terrible.

    Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

  • But its faithlessness manifests itself in another way also: it continually becomes only a repetition.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Even some Americans criticize their brothers as “little Eichmanns” for their participation in the great engine of faithlessness and nihilism that is the West.

    The Parable of the Spider darkerblogistan 2009

  • Then, in my mid-20s, I underwent a crisis of faithlessness.

    An atheist at Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless 2011

  • But its faithlessness manifests itself in another way also: it continually becomes only a repetition.

    This and/or that Matthew Guerrieri 2009

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