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Webster 1913 Edition
Incredulity
Inˊcre-du′li-ty
,Noun.
[L.
incredulitas
: cf. F. incrédulité
.] The state or quality of being incredulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.
Of every species of
incredulity
, religious unbelief is the most irrational. Buckminster.
Webster 1828 Edition
Incredulity
INCREDU'LITY
,Noun.
Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is infinitely the most irrational.
Definition 2024
incredulity
incredulity
English
Noun
incredulity (usually uncountable, plural incredulities)
- Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
- 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, ch. 24:
- Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess:
- It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
- 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, ch. 24:
- (rare) Religious disbelief, lack of faith.
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unwillingness to believe; doubt about the truth of something
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religious disbelief
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