Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who holds false beliefs; especially, one who holds false religious opinions.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
Etymologies
- From misbelieve + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Such harassment stems, Mill writes, from "the notion that it is one man's duty that another should be religious ... a belief that God not only abominates the act of the misbeliever, but will not leave us guiltless if we leave him unmolested.”
The Huffington Post: Christopher Lane: The Striking History Of Britain's Sunday Law
““Thou art not courteous, misbeliever,” replied the”
“He spoke of the unbelieving husband converted by the believing wife; and what do I know but that the traitor exhibited to the Saracen, accursed of God, the beauties of Edith Plantagenet, that the hound might judge if the princely Christian lady were fit to be admitted into the haram of a misbeliever?”
“May 12th, 2006 at 7:50 am misbeliever.blogspot.com”
“South-Eastern Europe, a constituency, in which the clerical vote is said to be decisive, preferred, by an overwhelming majority, the candidate who most distinctly represented the bondage of Christian nations under the yoke of the misbeliever.”
“QUOTATION: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,”
“They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths; but God will perfect His light, averse although the misbeliever be!”
“It is a belief that God not only abominates the act of the misbeliever, but will not hold us guiltless if we leave him unmolested.”
Chapter IV. Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual
“Though a man of sincere piety, who throughout his entire life remained firm in the faith of his fathers, he and his work were at once condemnned: he was suspended by the Catholic authorities as a misbeliever, denounced by Protestants as an infidel, and taunted by both as "a would-be corrector of the Holy Ghost.”
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
“` ` What! '' said Sir Kenneth, ` ` darest thou think, Moslem, that Richard would give his kinswoman --- a high-born and virtuous princess, to be, at best, the foremost concubine in the haram of a misbeliever?”
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