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▪ I. unbeˈlieve, v.1
Also 6 vnbeleue, 7 -leeue.
[un-1 14.]
To disbelieve: a. trans.
1547Baldwin Mor. Philos. (1550) G v b, Aristotle..beeyng asked what vauntage a man might get by lying, he answered: to be vnbeleued whan he telleth truth. 1615Daniel Hymen's Triumph ii. ii, A counterfeited shew Of passion, which you may..Make him as easily to vnbeleeue, As what he neuer saw. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. (1686) 24 Such as amass all relations, must erre in some, and may without offence be unbelieved in many. 1672Eachard Lett. 70, I must desire you to unbelieve all that you have said. 1711Medley No. 42 He seems to think he may..make us unbelieve what we have seen. 1813J. Adams Wks. (1856) X. 57 What does Priestley mean by an unbeliever, when he applies it to you? How much did he unbelieve himself? 1872Lever Ld. Kilgobbin lxxix, Fellows who are realistic,..who have little to speculate on and less to unbelieve.
b. intr. or absol.
1687Reason. Toleration 2 Let neither Her nor Him that unbelieves depart, if pleased to stay. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 451 Where Men believe, not because it is True, but because they are required to do so, there they will unbelieve. 1855Browning Bp. Blougram's Apol. 263 And so you live to sleep as I to wake, To unbelieve as I to still believe?
▪ II. unbeˈlieve, v.2
[un-2 4.]
trans. To give up belief in; to discard or abandon (belief).
1605Daniel Queen's Arcadia v. iv. (1606) K iij, How were I cleer'd of griefe, Had I the power to vnbeleeue beliefe. 1795Paine Age of Reason ii. 8 To believe therefore the Bible to be true, we must unbelieve all our belief in the moral justice of God. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 38 note, You know nothing of those people. They will believe everything, and unbelieve nothing. |