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unbeˈlief
Forms: α. 2 unbelefe, 4 vnbylefe; 3 unbileue, -leaue, 4 vnbi-, vnbyleue, 4, 6 unbeleue (4 -leeue, 6 -leve). β. 6 vnbelefe, 6–7 -leefe, -liefe, 6– unbelief (6–7 -liefe).
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Absence or lack of belief; disbelief, incredulity. a. In matters of religion.
αc1160Hatton Gosp. Mark xvi. 14 Heom atewede se hælend & here unbelefen & heora heorten ᵹe-tremede. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 81 He..blamede here un-bileue & here unwreste liflode. a1225Leg. Kath. 259 Wið neauer an ne keccheð he creftiluker cang men, ne leadeð to unbileaue. 1382Wyclif Matt. xiii. 58 He dide nat there manye vertues, for the vnbyleue of hem. a1400New Test. (Paues) Heb. iii. 12 Loke ȝe, wheþer þer be in any of ȝou an efel herte of vnbylefe. 1526Tindale Rom. xi. 20 Be cause of vnbeleve they are broken of. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 13 Saif vs..from dispair, From unbeleue, and Lollardis lair.
β1531Tindale Exp. 1 John ii. (1538) 39 The doctrine of them..that say, vnbelefe to be the mother of al vyce. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxii. §4 Their vnbeleefe in that case we may not impute vnto any weakness..in the meanes. 1634Milton Comus 519 Such there be, but unbelief is blind. 1680J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxxii, Positive Unbelief, is the Sin of Men and Women under the Gospel. 1705Atterbury Serm. (1726) II. 51 For the Mind doth, by every degree of affected Unbelief, contract more and more of a general Indisposition towards Believing. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 57 As much as I love my fellow-men, so much and no more will I be intolerant of their heresies and unbelief. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 27 The second of these books would be condemned for heresy, and the first for unbelief. 1897Liddon, etc. Life Pusey IV. iii. 73 Those forms of German unbelief with which..he had become painfully familiar at Göttingen.
b. In general use.
1649J. Taylor (Water P.) Western Voy. 15 It is a hazard of the losse of a traveller's liberty by either their unbeliefe or misprision. a1800Cowper Odyssey (ed. 2) xiv. 177 Since, hopeless of thy lord's return, Thou art thus resolute in unbelief. 1855Poultry Chron. II. 566/1 The tables were turned on me by the man, who had I suppose observed my previous gesture of unbelief. 1900Longm. Mag. Mar. 465, I had received the news with contemptuous unbelief.
c. Personified.
1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. iii. 122 Where watchful Unbelief Darts through the thin pretence her squinting eye. 1781Cowper Truth 445 Thus often unbelief, grown sick of life, Flies to the tempting pool, or felon knife. |