Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Absence of faith, especially in religion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want or absence of faith; distrust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief.
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- noun Absence of
faith .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't believe that you're predestined as it were to 'unfaith' that God says 'it's not much use wasting my time of Humphrys!'
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But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it.
Kevin Belmonte: The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story Kevin Belmonte 2011
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But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it.
Kevin Belmonte: The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story Kevin Belmonte 2011
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But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it.
Kevin Belmonte: The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story Kevin Belmonte 2011
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But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it.
Kevin Belmonte: The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story Kevin Belmonte 2011
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Heidegger is also a major dialogue partner, and he is quoted on p.245 as having written that "a faith that does not perpetually expose itself to the possibility of unfaith is no faith but merely a convenience".
Adventures in the Spirit: Part Five James F. McGrath 2009
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Heidegger is also a major dialogue partner, and he is quoted on p.245 as having written that "a faith that does not perpetually expose itself to the possibility of unfaith is no faith but merely a convenience".
Archive 2009-05-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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Quoth Gharib, “Indeed, I have brought him out of wrongousness into the way of righteousness, out of Hell into Heaven and out of unfaith to the True Faith.”
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Preaching hopelessness, defeat, and doom for seven years... preaching unfaith in the democratic process itself...
The lovely and expressive Michelle Obama spoke in Madison, Wisconsin today. Ann Althouse 2008
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Christopher Hitchens about faith and unfaith, and I think you could get him to do it if you just ply him with his favorite scotch
Who should I diavlog with? Ann Althouse 2008
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