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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A wrong or faulty belief.
  • noun A heretical or unorthodox religious belief.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Erroneous belief; false opinion; especially, belief in false religious doctrines.
  • noun Ill belief; suspicion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Erroneous or false belief.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun an erroneous belief
  • noun religion a heresy; an unorthodox belief

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mis- +‎ belief

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