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misbelief|mɪsbɪˈliːf|
[mis-1 4, 7.]
1. Erroneous or unorthodox religious belief; wrong faith; heresy.
a1225Leg. Kath. 2393 Leste ȝe eft wepen echeliche in helle..as ȝe schullen alle, buten ȝef ȝe forleten..ower misbileaue. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5521 Þe haithen men of mysbylyefe. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 402 Mekometh in mysbileue men and wommen brouȝte. 1481Caxton Godfrey c. 152 Grete hate..hath ben bytwene the Turkes of thoryent and the Turkes of Egypt..By cause they discorde in theyr creaunce and mysbyleue. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 144/2 If the woorship of ymages wer ydolatrie than y⊇ churche beleuing it to be lawful..were in a misbelieue & in a deadly error. 1639Laud Wks. (1849) II. 6 Perfidious misbelief could not be welcome, or, rather, indeed, perfidious misbelievers or schismatics could not be welcome. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. Wks. 1738 II. 61 Paulinus omitting no opportunity to win the King from misbelief. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 93 In producing superstition and misbelief on one hand, and unbelief on the other. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 13 The authors..did not speak out..the unbelief or misbelief which they suggested. 1879A. W. Haddan Apost. Succ. Ch. Eng. p. vii, [A doctrine] which the tendency of modern belief or misbelief leads men to scorn as childish.
2. gen. Erroneous belief; false opinion or notion.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. T. 660 Ye shul han no mysbileeue Ne wrong conceite of me in youre Absence. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 397 Þis and oþere suche lewed tales Englisshe men holdeþ by a mysbyleve [L. incredulitate] þat haþ ful longe i-dured. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 18623 And thynges that thow doste obserue, Alle is but ffoly and mysbyleve. 1496Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) i. xlv 87/1 They haue no suche fantasye ne mysbyleue in dremes. 1513Douglas æneis x. xi. 56 Gif thou wenis that all the victory..May be reducit and alterat clar agane, A mysbeleve thou fosteris all in vane. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 18 If they prevail to perswade the people of the necessity of practice, in so doing they put on them both the misbelief and the mispractice. 1905Athenæum 8 July 39/2 The misbeliefs of bygone times.
†3. Want of belief; disbelief; incredulity.
138.Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 108 God hardede Pharaois herte for þe mysbyleve þat he hadde to God. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 215/1 O how thy moste beaute hast thou lost for thyn incredulyte and mysbyleue. 1587Golding De Mornay vi. (1592) 84 Simple distrusts or misbeleefes of the things which they vnderstand not. 1591Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) 38 The traitors breath, Whose periurie..Beleaguers all the skie with mis-beleefe. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 51/1 Misbelief Of these sad news. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. xvi. (1712) 142 A contemptuous misbelief of such like Narrations concerning Spirits, and an endeavour of making them all ridiculous and incredible.
¶4. An alleged term for a ‘company’ of painters.
1486Bk. St. Albans f vij, A misbeleue of paynteris.
Hence † misbeˈliefful a., unbelieving; † misbeˈliefness, unbelief.
c1320Cast. Love 1428 [Saint] Thomas misbileuenesse. c1420Wyclif's Bible Ecclus. i. 36 Mysbileueful [1382 mys leeful, 1388 vnbileueful] to the dred of the Lord [Vulg. incredibilis timori Domini]. |