Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wrong or faulty belief.
- noun A heretical or unorthodox religious belief.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Erroneous belief; false opinion; especially, belief in false religious doctrines.
- noun Ill belief; suspicion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Erroneous or false belief.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an erroneous belief
- noun religion a heresy; an unorthodox belief
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a quick diversion, let me mention a recent Behavior and Brain Sciences Journal issue dedicated to discussing "misbelief".
Planet Atheism Sabio Lantz 2010
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As a quick diversion, let me mention a recent Behavior and Brain Sciences Journal issue dedicated to discussing "misbelief".
Planet Atheism Sabio Lantz 2010
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But there's something just deeply disturbing about the misinformation and if there's such a word, the misbelief out there.
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Our usual cognition of our ordinary bodies, then, is conceptual, despite our misbelief that we are actually “seeing” what our conceptual minds make appear.
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Their main intention seems to be to create a misbelief in people that any change in Nepal is a curse.
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Hearing his cry she knew his voice and went to the door, between belief and misbelief; but, when she opened it she saw him standing there and with him his wife and children; so she shrieked aloud, for excess of joy, and fell to the earth in a fainting-fit.
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That misbelief is our confusion, our unawareness, our ignorance.
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His misbelief that he is the omnipotent creator represents the epitome of the misbelief in oneself existing as an impossible “me” – namely, as a “me” who can control everything in life.
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"Either you seek to lure me into misbelief, very holy sir, or you have gone mad," Koubatzes said.
Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005
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"I do not believe it to be misbelief, and I will not renounce it," Rhavas replied.
Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005
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