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Another word for unbelief

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Noun

  1. The refusal or reluctance to believe

    See also:

    belief

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Another word for unbelief

Noun
  1. See also:

    uncertainty

    doubt

Synonym Study

  • Incredulity implies a general skepticism or disinclination to believe
  • Disbelief suggests a positive refusal to believe an assertion, theory, etc. she listened with disbelief to his ridiculous accusations
  • Unbelief implies merely a lack of belief, as because of insufficient evidence, esp. in matters of religion or faith
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Sentence Examples

  • Cairns in his Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century).

  • His readers needed most the moral heroism of fidelity to the Unseen, which made men "despise shame" due to aught that sinners in their unbelief might do to them (xii.

  • By making religion hard it made it odious, and thus prepared the way for unbelief.

  • He whom we hear in the Gathas has had to face, not merely all forms of outward opposition and the unbelief and lukewarmness of adherents, but also the inward misgivings of his own heart as to the truth and final victory of his cause.

  • (1860); Romanism and Rationalism (1863); Outlines of Apologetical Theology (1867); The Doctrine of the Presbyterian Church (1876); Unbelief in the i 8th Century (1881); Doctrinal Principles of the United Presbyterian Church (Dr Blair's Manual, 1888) .

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