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Faithless adj.

Not believing; not giving credit. "Be not faithless, but believing."

Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.

Not observant of promises or covenants.

Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife. "A most unnatural and faithless service."

Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying. "Yonder faithless phantom."

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Etymology of 'Faithless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Faithless" Quotes from Famous Books

... thanks!" cried Aramis, almost in a state of delirium. "She was forced to return to Tours; she is not faithless; she still loves me! Come, my friend, come, let me embrace you. Happiness ...

— The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... head of Christ for the original picture, which has been preserved on a torn and soiled piece of paper at Brera, expresses the most elevated seriousness, together with Divine gentleness pain on account of the faithless disciple, a full presentiment of his own death, and resignation to the will of the Father. It gives a faint idea of what the master may have ...

— The Old Masters and Their Pictures - For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art • Sarah Tytler

... sore perplexed heart, full of indignation and dumb anger, as if he must go and hear something which should exorcize the unwonted longing for revenge that disturbed his grief, and made him conscious of that great blank of consolation which faithfulness produces. And for the time he was faithless. How came God to permit such cruel injustice of man? Permitting it, He could not be good. Then what was life, and what was death, but woe and despair? The beautiful solemn words of the ritual had done him good, and restored ...

— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. I • Elizabeth Gaskell

... privilege does not destroy the truth of duty and privilege. It only blinds the faithless eyes so that they cannot see the truth. If the immortality of the soul be a truth, the materialistic absorption of our life would blind us to it and make us deny it. Exclusive attention to the present would hide the future from us, although its dazzling prizes, scattered ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... was about to be answered through the mercy of that good Providence which helps even the faithless and undeserving. I was musing dolefully at the tent door when a large party appeared in the distance, and one of them spurred forward, and came up to me at full gallop. It was Captain Blundel. He dismounted, and with a beaming face said—"Good news, Mrs Englefield; I think I have brought your patient ...

— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston

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