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unbeliever

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who lacks belief or faith, especially in a particular religion; a nonbeliever.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An incredulous person; one who does not believe.
  • noun One who discredits Christian revelation, or the mission, character, and doctrines of Christ.
  • noun One who does not believe in or hold any given religion.
  • noun Synonyms Skeptic, Disbeliever, etc. See infidel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.
  • noun A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe other people)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity)

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Examples

  • I guess the difference between a believer and an unbeliever is that an unbeliever doesn't understand how a believer thinks or how prayer or personal revelation works.

    Balkinization 2007

  • The unbeliever is the believer's secret sharer, and vice versa.

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • The unbeliever is the believer's secret sharer, and vice versa.

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • The same thing when done by the believer, and when done by the unbeliever, is not the same thing [Bengel].

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Church-censures, duly administered, strike an awe upon men's consciences; the word (the weapons of her warfare) casts down imaginations (2 Cor.x. 5), and even an unbeliever is convinced and judged by the solemnity of holy ordinances, 1 Cor. xiv.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • As no unbeliever is permitted to enter the city, our travellers are silent; and the short hints of Thevenot (Voyages du Levant, part i.p. 490) are taken from the suspicious mouth of an African renegado.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • The unbeliever is a dangerous person, and he is promptly suppressed.

    Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

  • One of the things that Philip had heard definitely stated was that the unbeliever was a wicked and a vicious man; but Weeks, though he believed in hardly anything that Philip believed, led a life of Christian purity.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

  • One of the things that Philip had heard definitely stated was that the unbeliever was a wicked and a vicious man; but Weeks, though he believed in hardly anything that Philip believed, led

    Of Human Bondage 1915

  • Its indestructible vitality is evidence that it is an inherent element in human nature, that the unbeliever is a subnormal man.

    Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Henry Sloane Coffin 1915

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