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Disbelieve   /dɪsbəlˈiv/   Listen
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Disbelieve  v. t.  (past & past part. disbelieved; pres. part. disbelieving)  Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual. "Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility."






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"Disbelieve" Quotes from Famous Books



... I can not help if you disbelieve him. Still, you must comply with his request; otherwise, the Bishop may compel ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... ever since; though growing meanwhile, as the soul does. And the ancient oak at the cross was rent, and many score of ash trees. But why should I tell all this? the people who have not seen it (as I have) will only make faces, and disbelieve; till such another frost comes; which ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore

... nor disbelieve in that and many more modern discoveries of the same kind I do not think it right to reject them or to give blind credence. Not a day passes but some discovery excites our wonder and admiration, and points out to us how little we do know. The great fault ...
— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat

... happens that a very small class of men follow pocketing, and that a very large class of men, miners, too, disbelieve utterly in any ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London

... after a short pause, and speaking in a firm voice—"and is it possible that you disbelieve my story?—that you, like all the rest, consider my ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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