What's the difference between nonbeliever and unbeliever?

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.

Unbeliever


Definition:

  • (n.) One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.
  • (n.) A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is unbelievable that he would continue to say that, but he says it.
  • (2) An unbelievably convenient boost to demand in this country – and indeed to all economies that are major importers of oil – has come in the nick of electoral time from the halving of the world price of crude.
  • (3) 'The smell had become unbelievably bad by then', she said.
  • (4) The extensive surveillance, phone records and the evidence of the couriers made their denials unbelievable.
  • (5) It’s an unbelievable privilege and unbelievable responsibility to take a jewel and treat it in a way that is respectful of its past but brings it into the future.” Fortunately for both men, the signs are positive.
  • (6) Hotels are an easy option, often patronised by individuals who can be depicted as “unbelievers”, or representatives of the so-called Crusader-Zionist alliance so hated by the extremists, and usually poorly protected too.
  • (7) PhDs require funding, and veterinary nursing is unbelievably oversubscribed.
  • (8) "Unbelievable jobs numbers… these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers," he said on Twitter .
  • (9) Gravett and others who lived through DADT told the Guardian that so much had changed since the repeal, though the past feels unbelievable at times.
  • (10) "People seem shocked that we're going home, but what happened up there was unbelievable.
  • (11) While the search continued her son Adam Fawell, 29, told the Yorkshire Evening Post: “The support we are getting from friends and family is unbelievable and the stuff that is going around generally is incredible and a little bit overwhelming.” Elaine McIver, 43 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elaine McIver The family of Elaine McIver confirmed on Thursday that she had been killed in the blast on Monday.
  • (12) It was an unbelievable feeling,” Keating told Associated Press, adding she felt “totally blessed and loved” by the pope.
  • (13) Yes, Khodorkovsky has been very unlucky in his fate, but we, his compatriots, have been unbelievably lucky: the party of human dignity is today embodied by an individual who conducts himself in a model fashion and does not bend or break under pressure.
  • (14) Alfredo Serrano (@TheAlfrigerator) Papi is unbelievable.
  • (15) It was very strange, almost unbelievable," he says.
  • (16) Friedman said conservative social scientists and economists who testified for Michigan were "unbelievable" and "clearly represent a fringe viewpoint".
  • (17) Totally, unbelievably untrue, but it does create doubt and they just drive right through that.” The appearance, her fourth on the late-night talk show circuit after stints on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, also had lighter moments.
  • (18) Ftis said: “What I saw last night, it’s unbelievable.
  • (19) We are unbelievably sophisticated at that.” His most celebrated work, the remaking of Berlin’s bombed-out Neues Museum , which opened in 2009 after a decade of work he called “an unbelievably positive experience”, was based on a serious debate about meaning that he finds lacking in Britain.
  • (20) "The scene is just unbelievable," a witness told the Guardian.

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