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faithlessness|ˈfeɪθlɪsnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality or fact of being faithless. a. Want of fidelity, disloyalty, perfidy. b. Want of good faith, insincerity. c. Want of religious belief; infidelity.
1605Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows i. §10 So great distrust is there in man..from his impotence or faithlesnes. 1726Pope Let. to Bethel 9 Aug. Lett. (1737) 320, I..wish he had lived long enough to see so much of the faithlessness of the world, as to have been [etc.]. 1758T. Edwards Canons Crit. (1765) 344 Sharp are the pangs that follow faithlessness. 1790Blair Serm. III. xiii. 275 When the heart is sorely wounded by the ingratitude or faithlessness of those on whom it had leaned. a1849J. H. Evans in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxi. 17 The faithlessness of Abiathar, and the faithlessness of even his faithful Joab. 1849Grote Greece ii. xlvii. VI. 96 Perdikkas whose character for faithlessness we shall have..to notice. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. xii. 347 Faithlessness..characteristic of this present century. |