Unbeliever

Unbeliever
Unbeliever Un`be*liev"er, n. 1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. [1913 Webster]

2. 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. [1913 Webster]

Syn: See {Infidel}. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • unbeliever — index heretic Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • unbeliever — 1520s, agent noun from UNBELIEF (Cf. unbelief) …   Etymology dictionary

  • unbeliever — freethinker, *atheist, agnostic, infidel, deist …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • unbeliever — [un΄bə lē′vər] n. 1. a person who does not believe; doubter 2. a person who does not accept any, or any particular, religious belief SYN. ATHEIST …   English World dictionary

  • unbeliever — UK [ˌʌnbɪˈliːvə(r)] / US [ˌʌnbɪˈlɪvər] noun [countable] Word forms unbeliever : singular unbeliever plural unbelievers formal someone who does not believe in God or in a religion …   English dictionary

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