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Unbelieving   /ˌənbəlˈivɪŋ/   Listen
Unbelieving

adjective
1.
Rejecting any belief in gods.  Synonyms: atheistic, atheistical.
2.
Holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible.  Synonym: nescient.
3.
Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion.  Synonyms: disbelieving, sceptical, skeptical.






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"Unbelieving" Quotes from Famous Books



... the incomparable Mother of God have transformed them into new men. Incapable of concerting aught between themselves, or of imagining anything similar to what they relate, each is the witness to a vision which has not found him unbelieving; each is its historian. These two shepherds, dull as they were, have at once understood and received the lesson which was vouchsafed to them, and it is ineffaceably engraven on their hearts. They add nothing to it, they take nothing from it, they modify it in ...
— Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal • Sarah J Richardson

... master and missy, why did I leave you? What will they be doing? Oh they was right and I was wrong! The perlice is a bad, wicked, unbelieving lot—oh my, oh my!—if onst I was but out o' here——" but he stopped suddenly. The words he had said without thinking seemed to say themselves over again to him as if some one else had addressed ...
— "Us" - An Old Fashioned Story • Mary Louisa S. Molesworth

... Trail"—they sauntered on down the pergola to the lane, sprinkled with fallen apple blossoms. At the end of the lane, they came suddenly upon two other solitary strollers, and stopped short with a gasp of unbelieving wonder. ...
— Just Patty • Jean Webster

... all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But," was slowly, distinctly read, "the fearful, the unbelieving, &c., shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte

... speechless as a stone; And they tell us, of his image is the master Who commands us to work on. Go to," say the children, "up in heaven, Dark, wheel-like turning clouds are all we find. Do not mock us; grief has made us unbelieving; We look up for God, but tears have made us blind." Do you hear the children weeping and disproving, Oh, my brothers, what ye preach? For God's possible is taught by his world's loving, And ...
— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy


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