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Webster 1913 Edition


Unfaith

Un-faith′

,
Noun.
Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief.
[R.]
Faith and
unfaith
can ne’er be equal powers:
Unfaith
in aught is want of faith in all.
Tennyson.

Definition 2024


unfaith

unfaith

English

Noun

unfaith (usually uncountable, plural unfaiths)

  1. Absence of faith.
    • 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:
      The true religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.
    • 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain:
      But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution.
    • 1921, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry:
      Remember old years and do not break your oath with me, Jehane, since God abhors nothing so much as unfaith.