Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not believing; doubting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not believing; incredulous; skeptical; doubting.
- Infidel; discrediting divine revelation, or the mission, character, and doctrines of Christ: as, “the unbelieving Jews,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.
- adjective Believing that the thing alleged is not true; disbelieving; especially, believing that the Bible is not a divine revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a supernatural person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That does not
believe ;incredulous ,skeptical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible
- adjective denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion
- adjective rejecting any belief in gods
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Examples
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Cain, in unbelieving self-righteousness, presented merely a thank offering, not like Abel feeling his need of the propitiatory sacrifice appointed on account of sin.
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15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Through love she knew all his soul, and in his soul she saw what she wanted, and that such a state of soul should be called unbelieving was to her a matter of no account.
Anna Karenina 2003
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But if, as some that are without God, that is, the unbelieving, say, He became man in appearance [only], that He did not in reality take unto
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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But if, as some that are without God, that is, the unbelieving, say, that He only seemed to suffer (they themselves only seeming to exist), then why am I in bonds?
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Through love she knew all his soul, and in his soul she saw what she wanted, and that such a state of soul should be called unbelieving was to her a matter of no account.
Chapter XVI. Part IV 1917
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Through love she knew all his soul, and in his soul she saw what she wanted, and that such a state of soul should be called unbelieving was to her a matter of no account.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869
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This the Gentiles have, and by this they shall be judged: As many as have sinned without law shall perish without law; that is, the unbelieving Gentiles, who had no other guide but natural conscience, no other motive but common mercies, and had not the law of
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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The gospel, which to those that believed was the savour of life unto life, to the unbelieving was the savour of death unto death.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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It's like trying to hold an intelligent conversation with a proud member of the Hitler Youth right after fearless leader plowed under another 'unbelieving' country.
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