(n.) One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) It sounds like self-congratulation for disbelieving incorrect forecasts of rain, then proudly stepping into a hailstorm without an umbrella.
(2) It happens within a society where we repeatedly hear victims dismissed, belittled and disbelieved at best, or, at worst,blamed for their own assaults.
(3) 'I've no reason to believe these rumours or disbelieve them.'
(4) I look at him – and the house – disbelievingly.
(5) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
(6) The year after the joint UK-Libyan operations were mounted, Straw told MPs they must disbelieve allegations of UK involvement in rendition "unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are lying, that I am lying, that behind this there is some kind of secret state which is in league with some dark forces in the United States".
(7) Lest you think that the headline does not fairly represent the content of the column, Blackhurst, in explaining why he would never have allowed his newspaper to publish any of the documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, actually wrote: If the security services insist something is contrary to the public interest, and might harm their operations, who am I (despite my grounding from Watergate onwards) to disbelieve them?"
(8) If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.
(9) Discarding the difference with the disbelieving sects, and considering co-existence with them as the true societal bond that the ummah must operate in accordance with in order to preserve its goals, while in reality protection is implemented for the rights of all the communities of disbelief while oppressing the Sunnis and their principles.
(10) Last night, Letterman turned his legendary ironic wit on himself , revealing to an unprepared and frankly disbelieving TV audience that he had been the victim of a $2m (£1.25m) blackmail plot.
(11) Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military.
(12) With the stadium still in disbelieving raptures from the heroics of Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford, Farah took to the track to huge cheers knowing that at least a dozen of the 29-strong field were capable of mounting a serious challenge.
(13) Judge Thokozile Masipa found no reason to disbelieve Pistorius’s story and convicted him of culpable homicide, the South African equivalent of manslaughter.
(14) Clinton’s share of the ballot among union households in Ohio dropped sharply on previous elections as Trump’s focus on jobs and trade resonated with voters who, polls showed, believe international trade takes away US jobs and disbelieved Clinton’s claims of an economic recovery.
(15) The report claims that these studies "could not have been clearer" in their description of the situation in Rotherham, adding that the first of these was "effectively suppressed" because some senior officers disbelieved some of its data.
(16) But my performance made it impossible for attendees to disbelieve, forcing them to recognise that sexual interactions that are often dismissed as normal are too often instances of sexual violence.
(17) I guess this is where the Holocaust really became the Holocaust .” Familiar as we now may be with concentration-camp footage, it might seem hard to realise that there was a good 15-year period after the war where the Holocaust was essentially disbelieved.
(18) Well, I'll show you what tough is ..." Whereupon he seized a steak knife and violently stabbed himself in the leg, watched by the disbelieving Ali, who had no idea Reg had a false leg and was reduced to gobsmacked silence.
(19) I'm inclined to disbelieve everything he says, but at the bar, another local man says it's true.
(20) During a Newsnight interview in December 1999, Bowie found himself evangelising the impact of the internet to a mostly disbelieving Jeremy Paxman.
Nonbeliever
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) They are now being replaced by children and grandchildren who are unfervent nonbelievers.
(2) However, the pope criticised the church for having done very little to open dialogue with nonbelievers since the Second Vatican Council.
(3) The believers of the germ theory defended Lister's theories whereas the nonbelievers of the germ theory created an atmosphere of resistance to Listerism.
(4) Callers to Christian radio stations have debated what to do about nonbelieving friends and neighbours who will be left behind to endure the wrath of God.
(5) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) For the nonbeliever, here is a photo of @Neilyoung in my office and his $$ request—total hypocrite.
(6) It must also protect its minorities, not only Christians and Baha'is but also the officially voiceless but significant nonbelieving minority.
(7) Michael Dorian, co-director of the documentary Refusing My Religion notes , "many now understand that most people – whether believers or nonbelievers - can appreciate the holidays and just want to celebrate the season by socializing with friends and family, and that can be easily achieved with or without the trappings of religion".
(8) Furthermore, the general interest in the subjects has tended to divided the medical consensus between believers and nonbelievers.
(9) If all goes according to plan, those who have been "saved" by Jesus will rise into the air in the Rapture and look down as God smites billions of nonbelievers with a great earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet, and a bit of fire to boot.
(10) I was seated with the choir in the loft, and with each hymn we sang and each prayer spoken by the faithful around me – the delivery didn't feel so rote this time – I began to feel a greater attachment to the meaning religious practice held for many around me, and to being present for a ritual that gave that meaning palpable form, even to a nonbeliever.
(11) In them, he was heard calling for the death of nonbelievers, and making references to training schoolboys to shoot Kalashnikovs.
(12) The show's host assured him that nonbelievers would be too busy being tortured by fire to worry about seeking vengeance on him.
(13) In the afterword to a recent edition of his book, God is not Great , Christopher Hitchens laid out a challenge: Name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever.