Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not true to duty or obligation; disloyal or unfaithful.
- adjective Breaking trust in a marriage or relationship by having sexual relations with someone other than one's spouse or sexual partner.
- adjective Having no religious faith.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without faith or belief; not giving credit; unbelieving; especially, without religious faith or faith in the Christian religion; skeptical.
- Without faithfulness or fidelity; not keeping faith; not adhering to allegiance, vows, or duty; disloyal: as, a faithless subject; a faithless servant; a faithless husband or wife.
- Tending to disappoint or deceive; deceptive; delusive.
- Synonyms and False, untruthful, perfidious, treacherous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not believing; not giving credit.
- adjective Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
- adjective Not observant of promises or covenants.
- adjective Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
- adjective Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking
faith ; lackingbelief in something. - adjective Not believing in
God ,religion , or a comparableideology . - adjective
Unfaithful ; not of truefidelity ;inconstant , as a husband or a wife. - adjective Not
observant ofpromises orcovenants . - adjective Not true to
allegiance ,duty , orvows ;perfidious ;treacherous ;disloyal . - adjective Serving to
disappoint ordeceive ;delusive ;unsatisfying .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor
Etymologies
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Examples
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Occasionally, what's called a faithless elector votes for somebody else.
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Throughout U.S. history there have been numerous cases of so - called faithless electors who changed their minds.
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Electoral College to Meet Monday - December 16, 2000 2000
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Therefore it is more fitting that you should be called faithless than that the Moors should be.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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He had suspected no innocent girl -- only called a faithless betrothed bride by the fitting name.
In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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He had suspected no innocent girl -- only called a faithless betrothed bride by the fitting name.
In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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He had suspected no innocent girl -- only called a faithless betrothed bride by the fitting name.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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She raised an army and equipped a fleet, and set sail with the force which she had thus assembled across the German Ocean, to call the faithless Radiger to account.
King Alfred of England Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 1849
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In my first complete version I had made Venus, on the occasion of her second attempt to recall her faithless lover, appear in a vision to Tannhauser when he is in a frenzy of madness, and the awfulness of the situation, is merely suggested by a faint roseate glow upon the distant Horselberg.
My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848
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Hortense, whose joyous voice of childhood had now and then recalled the faithless son to the father's house, and which was still a bond which united Josephine with her husband and with his family.
Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843
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She raised an army and equipped a fleet, and set sail with the force which she had thus assembled across the German Ocean, to call the faithless Radiger to account.
King Alfred of England Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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