unfaith

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ faith.

Noun

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unfaith (usually uncountable, plural unfaiths)

  1. Absence of faith.
    • 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy[1]:
      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[2]:
      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[3]:
      Remember old years and do not break your oath with me, Jehane, since God abhors nothing so much as unfaith.