单词 | unbelief |
释义 | unbeliefn. Absence or lack of belief; disbelief, incredulity. a. In matters of religion. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [noun] unbeliefc1160 wantruthc1175 mislevea1200 doubta1225 untrothc1380 untruthc1380 unreligiositya1382 irreligiosity1382 unbelieffulnessc1384 unfaithfulness1388 unbelievinga1400 unfaith1415 wanbelevenessc1440 wanbelievingc1440 wantrowinga1450 wanbelevea1470 mistruthc1480 infidelity1509 incredulity1532 atheonismc1534 unbelievingness1561 irreligiousness?1577 faithlessness1579 unreligiousness1579 atheism1587 scruple1600 discredence1627 doubtinga1628 disbelieving1645 atheisticalness1654 diffidelity1659 disbelief1672 atheisticness1691 nothingism1755 scepticism1800 nihilisma1817 infidelisma1834 nothingarianism1842 agnosticism1870 disfaith1870 no-Goddism1931 α. β. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John (1538) ii. 39 The doctrine of them..that say, vnbelefe to be the mother of al vyce.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxii. 41 Their vnbeliefe in that case we may not impute vnto any weakenes..in the meane.1637 J. Milton Comus 18 Such there be, but unbeliefe is blind.1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxxii. 540 Positive unbelief is the sin of men and women under the Gospel.1705 F. Atterbury Serm. St. James's Chapel 12 For the Mind doth, by every degree of affected Unbelief, contract more and more of a general Indisposition towards Believing.1809–10 S. T. Coleridge 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.1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 27 The second of these books would be condemned for heresy, and the first for unbelief.1897 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey IV. iii. 73 Those forms of German unbelief with which..he had become painfully familiar at Göttingen.c1160 Hatton Gosp. Mark xvi. 14 Heom atewede se hælend & here unbelefen & heora heorten ge-tremede. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 81 He..blamede here un-bileue & here unwreste liflode. a1225 Leg. Kath. 259 Wið neauer an ne keccheð he creftiluker cang men, ne leadeð to unbileaue. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 58 He dide nat there manye vertues, for the vnbyleue of hem. a1400 New Test. (Paues) Heb. iii. 12 Loke ȝe, wheþer þer be in any of ȝou an efel herte of vnbylefe. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. xi. 20 Be cause of vnbeleve they are broken of. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 13 Saif vs..from dispair, From unbeleue, and Lollardis lair. b. In general use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [noun] untrust?c1225 misbelief1340 misfaitha1382 misbeliefnessc1390 discredence?a1475 miscredit1565 discredit1567 infidelity1578 unconvincedness1642 disbelieving1645 scepticism1646 unbelief1649 diffidelity1659 disbelief1672 misbelieving1737 disfaith1870 1649 J. Taylor Wandering 15 It is a hazard of the losse of a traveller's liberty by either their unbeliefe or misprision. a1800 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey (ed. 2) xiv. 177 Since, hopeless of thy lord's return, Thou art thus resolute in unbelief. 1855 Poultry Chron. 2 566/1 The tables were turned on me by the man, who had I suppose observed my previous gesture of unbelief. 1900 Longman's Mag. Mar. 465 I had received the news with contemptuous unbelief. c. Personified. ΚΠ 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination iii. 122 Where watchful Unbelief Darts through the thin pretence her squinting eye. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 445 Thus often unbelief, grown sick of life, Flies to the tempting pool, or felon knife. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1160 |
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