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incredulity|ɪnkrɪˈdjuːlɪtɪ|
[Late ME., a. F. incrédulité, ad. L. incrēdulitāt-em, n. of quality f. incrēdulus incredulous.]
1. A disbelieving frame of mind; unreadiness or unwillingness to believe (statements, etc.); disbelief.
1430Lydg. St. Margarete 249 And fynal cause of thi mortal distresse Is thi wilful incredulite. c1460in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 112 Gayne thomas Indes incredulite. 1533Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 7 The sodeyn straungenes..shal not..gender in thee incredulitie [printed incrudelitie]. 1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. ii. ix. (R.), There is nothing so wild and extravagant, to which men may not expose themselves by such a kind of nice and scrupulous incredulity. 1742Jarvis Quix. ii. i. xiv. (1885) 57 Here is my sword, which shall make incredulity itself believe. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 66 The altar-piece in the chapel is the best piece I ever saw of his; the subject, the incredulity of St. Thomas. 1870Dickens E. Drood vii, Mr. Crisparkle looked in his face, with some incredulity. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 183 The greatness of their professions does arouse in his mind a temporary incredulity.
†2. Want of religious faith; unbelief. Obs.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 713/1 Nor no sinne can damne him but onely incredulitie, that is to say lacke of beliefe. 1560–11st Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. xiv. (1836) 77 Every one that dyeth departeth either in the faith of Christ or..in incredulity. 1619Sanderson Twelve Serm. (1632) 7 When the Faith of a true beleever is sore shaken with temptations of incredulitie and distrust.
†3. = incredibility. Obs.
1607Markham Caval. iii. (1617) 3 Others tell vs other tales, of as much incredulity, of the Horses of Scithia, Greece, and Barbary. |