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单词 unbelief
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unbeliefn.

Brit. /ˌʌnbᵻˈliːf/, U.S. /ˌənbəˈlif/
Forms: α. Middle English unbelefe, Middle English vnbylefe; Middle English unbileue, unbileaue, Middle English vnbileue, vnbyleue, Middle English, 1500s unbeleue (Middle English unbeleeue, 1500s unbeleve). β. 1500s vnbelefe, 1500s–1600s vnbeleefe, vnbeliefe, 1500s– unbelief (1500s–1600s unbeliefe).
Etymology: un- prefix1 6.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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