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Webster 1913 Edition
Faithless
Faith′less
,Adj.
1.
Not believing; not giving credit.
Be not
faithless
, but believing. John xx. 27.
2.
Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
Shak.
3.
Not observant of promises or covenants.
4.
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. Shakespeare
Faith′less-ly
, adv.
Faith′less-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Faithless
FA'ITHLESS
, a.1.
Without belief in the revealed truths of religion; unbelieving.O faithless generation. Math 18.
2.
Not believing; not giving credit to.3.
Not adhering to allegiance or duty; disloyal; perfidious; treacherous; as a faithless subject.4.
Not true to a master or employer; neglectful; as a faithless servant.5.
Not true to the marriage covenant; false; as a faithless husband or wife.6.
Not observant of promises.7.
Deceptive.Yonder faithless phantom.
Definition 2024
faithless
faithless
English
Adjective
faithless (comparative more faithless, superlative most faithless)
- Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
- 1970, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Old Chester Days, p. 58:
- "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."
- 1970, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Old Chester Days, p. 58:
- Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
- Unfaithful; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
- 1996, Frederick Ahl, Hanna Roisman, The Odyssey re-formed, p. 283:
- Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life...
- 1996, Frederick Ahl, Hanna Roisman, The Odyssey re-formed, p. 283:
- Not observant of promises or covenants.
- Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; treacherous; disloyal.
- Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.