Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds false beliefs; especially, one who holds false religious opinions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who holds an unauthorised
belief ; aheretic , anunbeliever .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
Etymologies
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Examples
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Such harassment stems, Mill writes, from "the notion that it is one man's duty that another should be religious ... a belief that God not only abominates the act of the misbeliever, but will not leave us guiltless if we leave him unmolested."
Christopher Lane: The Striking History Of Britain's Sunday Law Christopher Lane 2012
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“Thou art not courteous, misbeliever,” replied the
The Talisman 2008
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He spoke of the unbelieving husband converted by the believing wife; and what do I know but that the traitor exhibited to the Saracen, accursed of God, the beauties of Edith Plantagenet, that the hound might judge if the princely Christian lady were fit to be admitted into the haram of a misbeliever?
The Talisman 2008
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May 12th, 2006 at 7:50 am misbeliever.blogspot.com
Firedoglake » Hey George, Get Out of My Underwear Drawer 2006
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It is a belief that God not only abominates the act of the misbeliever, but will not hold us guiltless if we leave him unmolested.
On Liberty 2002
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South-Eastern Europe, a constituency, in which the clerical vote is said to be decisive, preferred, by an overwhelming majority, the candidate who most distinctly represented the bondage of Christian nations under the yoke of the misbeliever.
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QUOTATION: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
Quotations 1919
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They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths; but God will perfect His light, averse although the misbeliever be!
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It is a belief that God not only abominates the act of the misbeliever, but will not hold us guiltless if we leave him unmolested.
Chapter IV. Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual 1909
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Though a man of sincere piety, who throughout his entire life remained firm in the faith of his fathers, he and his work were at once condemnned: he was suspended by the Catholic authorities as a misbeliever, denounced by Protestants as an infidel, and taunted by both as "a would-be corrector of the Holy Ghost."
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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