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Unbelieving   /ˌənbəlˈivɪŋ/   Listen
Unbelieving

adjective
1.
Rejecting any belief in gods.  Synonyms: atheistic, atheistical.
2.
Holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible.  Synonym: nescient.
3.
Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion.  Synonyms: disbelieving, sceptical, skeptical.






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"Unbelieving" Quotes from Famous Books



... Allah protect," as recounted the native afterwards to an astonished, almost unbelieving bevy of listeners, "bringing his horse in a circle, suddenly picked up that woman rider. Yea! I tell thee, thou disbelieving son of a different coloured horse, a woman-rider, even she for whom the palace has been built; ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest

... much which I have left out; much which I have not dared to tell; but you will find the story of his second search for Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, even more remarkable than was his first manuscript which I gave to an unbelieving world a short time since and through which we followed the fighting Virginian across dead sea bottoms under ...
— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... a future life, and from the most unwise, inexpedient, and cowardly yielding to the temptation to say very little about the distinctive features of Christianity, and to dwell rather upon those which are sure to be recognised by even unbelieving people. And it comes, too, from the lack of faith, which, again, it tends ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... answered Front-de-Boeuf, "and if silver be scant, I refuse not gold. At the rate of a mark of gold for each six pounds of silver, thou shalt free thy unbelieving carcass from such punishment as thy heart has never even conceived in ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various

... the unbelieving old Jews! Just as if I was always trying to cram you! I tell you they do. So do the gannets and dookkers. They dive down, and swim wonderfully under water, and chase and catch the fish. They're ...
— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn


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