Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One who lacks belief or faith, especially in a particular religion; a nonbeliever.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe other people)
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An incredulous person; one who does not believe.
- n. One who discredits Christian revelation, or the mission, character, and doctrines of Christ.
- n. One who does not believe in or hold any given religion.
- n. Synonyms Skeptic, Disbeliever, etc. See infidel.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity)
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Examples
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I guess the difference between a believer and an unbeliever is that an unbeliever doesn't understand how a believer thinks or how prayer or personal revelation works.
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The unbeliever is the believer's secret sharer, and vice versa.
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The same thing when done by the believer, and when done by the unbeliever, is not the same thing [Bengel].
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Church-censures, duly administered, strike an awe upon men's consciences; the word (the weapons of her warfare) casts down imaginations (2 Cor.x. 5), and even an unbeliever is convinced and judged by the solemnity of holy ordinances, 1 Cor. xiv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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As no unbeliever is permitted to enter the city, our travellers are silent; and the short hints of Thevenot (Voyages du Levant, part i.p. 490) are taken from the suspicious mouth of an African renegado.
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The unbeliever is a dangerous person, and he is promptly suppressed.
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One of the things that Philip had heard definitely stated was that the unbeliever was a wicked and a vicious man; but Weeks, though he believed in hardly anything that Philip believed, led a life of Christian purity.
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One of the things that Philip had heard definitely stated was that the unbeliever was a wicked and a vicious man; but Weeks, though he believed in hardly anything that Philip believed, led
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Its indestructible vitality is evidence that it is an inherent element in human nature, that the unbeliever is a subnormal man.
Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking
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S: And they serve besides Allah that which neither profits them nor causes them harm; and the unbeliever is a partisan against his Lord.
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