Meaning of UNBELIEVING
Pronunciation: | | `unbi'leeving
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- [adj] denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles"
- [adj] holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible
- [adj] rejecting any belief in gods
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| Synonyms: | | agnostic, agnostical, atheistic, atheistical, disbelieving, incredulous, irreligious, nescient, sceptical, skeptical |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Un`be*liev"ing\, a.
1. Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting;
skeptical.
2. Believing the thing alleged no to be true; disbelieving;
especially, believing that Bible is not a divine
revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a
supernatural person. ``Unbelieving Jews.'' --Acts xiv. 2.
-- {Un`be*liev"ing*ly}, adv. -- -- {Un`be*liev"ing*ness},
n.
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