Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-BE-LIEF'
UN-BE-LIEF', n. [Sax. ungeleafa.]
- Incredulity; the withholding of belief; as, unbelief is blind. Milton.
- Infidelity; disbelief of divine revelation. Hooker.
- In the New Testament, disbelief of the truth of the Gospel, rejection of Christ as the Savior of men, and of the doctrines he taught; distrust of God's promises and faithfulness, &c. Matth. xiii. Mark xvi. Heb. iii. Rom. iv.
- Weak faith. Mark ix.
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