faithlessadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈfeɪθlᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈfeɪθlᵻs/

Forms: see faith n. and int. and -less suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: faith n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < faith n. + -less suffix. Compare faithful adj. and unfaithful adj. With use as noun compare earlier infidel n.

A. adj.

a. That does not possess or exhibit good faith, insincere; not faithful to one's promises, friends, spouse, etc.; perfidious, disloyal. Also with to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > disloyalty > [adjective]

unleal?a1300

faithlessc1390

disloyal1477

unloyal1576

disleal1590

illoyalc1630

disaffectionate1636

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > disloyalty > [adjective]

unleal?a1300

faithlessc1390

disloyal1477

unloyal1576

disleal1590

illoyalc1630

disaffectionate1636

indevoteda1674

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. x. l. 135 (MED) Fals folk and Feiþles, þeoues and lyȝers.

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) i. l. 81 (MED) The fortune þat fallyn is feitheles peple.

1534 G. Joye tr. Jeremy Prophete iii. f.v^v Nether is this her faithles sister Juda aftir al these warningis returned vnto me with al hir herte, but faynedly and falsely.

1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 133 Can hee think to finde mee faithfull towards him, that am faithlesse to mine owne father?

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii. §81. 478/2 A man..of a..faithless disposition.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 323 Domestic in his faithless roof I stay'd.

1786 E. Burke Speech 28 Apr. in Jrnls. House of Commons (1803) 41 649/1 The dangerous, faithless, and ill-concerted Projects of the..Council of Bombay.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in Poems 79 The faithless Flatterer.

1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 65 She had never been faithless to the royal bed.

1920 D. Vane Ferrybridge Myst. xiv. 170 He was a false lover, a faithless friend—a man without honor or principles.

1993 Empire Aug. 32/2 This..movie opens with cuckolded Bohringer murdering his faithless wife.

b. Of a person or (in later use esp.) a thing: that cannot be trusted or relied on; untrustworthy, unreliable; unstable, deluding. Also in †faithless of oneself.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective]

ficklea1000

hinderyeapc1000

swikelc1000

as right (also stiff, straight, crooked, etc.) as a ram's hornOE

fakenOE

swikefulc1100

frakelc1175

swikec1175

wrenchfulc1225

wielfulc1275

ginfulc1300

guileful13..

treacherousc1330

guilesomea1382

guilousc1384

enginousa1393

deceivant1393

treacherc1400

serpentinec1422

deceivousa1425

guilyc1430

beguilous1483

slapea1500

fallacious1509

treget1519

gaudya1529

beguileful1530

Spanish1530

juggling?1531

snakish1532

prestigious?1534

knack-hardy1549

pratting1570

fogging1585

snakya1586

abusive1595

faithless1597

faiterous1600

guiled1600

trompant1605

amusing1609

braida1616

dodging1625

Ulyssean1639

tricksome1648

knackish1660

hocus-pocus1668

bubbling1675

rusé1689

tricking1697

trickish1705

lurching1728

tricksy1766

trickful1775

tricky1786

slippy1828

shirky1847

dodgy1861

sidewinding1902

slithery1902

hyping1968

deceiteous-

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 256 Men that were faithlesse of themselues, whose guise it was, either for rewardes, or for favour of the king, to say they had dreamed when they had not.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 138 Oh faithlesse Coward, oh dishonest wretch.

1697 D. Baker Poems upon Several Occas. i. 5 Cruel Love..makes thy faithless Vows serve for a Stone To whet his bloody Darts upon.

1738 S. Johnson London 239 The midnight murd'rer bursts the faithless bar.

1766 O. Goldsmith Ballad [the Hermit] in Vicar of Wakefield I. viii Yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 466 On every side, striving to tear us from this faithless anchorage, are the unquiet, grinding floes.

1896 Eagle Mar. 195 Ere the inevitable tide of time Level thy footprints on the faithless sands.

1913 M. Johnston Hagar xxxiv. 386 The sailor..now muttered prayers and now objurgations upon the faithless weather.

1945 Sewanee Rev. 53 266 Here is a faithless map for all your praise.

2007 P. Guest Notes for Body Double 61 The bulbs rising from the yard's thawed clod to the faithless sun of that February.

†a. Lacking confidence or trust. Also with †of, in. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [adjective]

ortrowOE

unbelievedc1200

unbelieffulc1380

untrowfulc1380

mislevefula1382

mistrowablea1382

mistrowfula1382

mistrowinga1382

unfaithfulc1384

faithlessa1400

unbelievinga1400

untrothfula1400

misbelieffula1425

out of beliefa1425

untraistfulc1480

untruthfulc1480

godless1528

irreligious1561

incredulous1578

atheistical1588

athean1611

atheal1612

atheous1612

beliefless1612

nullifidian1661

atheist1667

unreligious1814

nihilistic1848

know-nothing1862

nescient1863

non-theistic1863

agnostical?a1870

agnostic1870

non-theist1913

no-God1923

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6517 (MED) To þis fait-les lede Manna fel.

1611 Bible (King James) John xx. 27 And bee not faithlesse, but beleeuing.

c1619 R. Jones in Phenix (1708) II. 482 They lost their Saviour and their souls to boot. They were now as faithless as their Fellow Judas, as faithless in their Master as he [sc. Judas] was to him [sc. Jesus].

1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 123 The more sober sort..are not altogether faithlesse as to his innocency.

1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 22 A faithless discreditor of the gospel-report concerning Jesus.

1775 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 382/2 Is it not a most extraordinary story? And yet I am not faithless in that point, as many a reader probably is.

1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 74 Men are not now more faithless of Armageddon, than [etc.].

1842 J. R. Lowell in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 480 And always 'tis the saddest sight to see An old man faithless in Humanity.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam civ. 163 The faithless coldness of the times.

b. Lacking (esp. religious) faith or belief; spec. not having or following the religious faith which is regarded as true and correct; infidel.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > lack of Christianity > [adjective]

unchristenc1000

unchristenedc1330

faithlessa1400

unchristian1563

unchristenlike1570

unchristianed1579

unchristianlike1610

unchristianly1643

unchristianized1778

unevangelized1813

a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 492 (MED) Crist forto venge Vpon þe faiþles folke þat hym fayntly slowen.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxix. 393 Thise Iues that felow thare faythles will.

1526 W. Tyndale Prol. Epist. Rom. Introd. sig. avii Whosoever doeth not good workes, is an vnbelevynge person and faythlesse, and loketh rounde a boute hym gropynge aftir fayth.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Rom. in Paraphr. New Test. Prol. sig. ††i Else shalt thou remaine euermore faithlesse.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B4^v At last him chaunst to meete vpon the way A faithlesse Sarazin.

1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 38 Tissaphernes a most godlesse and faithlesse man.

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vi. 252 As faithlesse as the Jewes, are we.

a1742 S. Weston Sermons (1747) I. xiii. 326 He that looks no farther than the Concerns of this present World, and even in them apprehends not the Authority and Justice of a Divine Governor, (which is the Case of the faithless Man) may indeed do Acts of Kindness and Beneficence to others.

1775 J. W. Fletcher Zelotes & Honestus Reconciled (ed. 2) i. xii. 157 The trial of the faithless Heathen came on.

1830 Casket Sept. 402/1 Byron the benevolent..who aided Greece with his gold, taught the faithless Moslem to be merciful.

1839 Churchman Aug. 256 The soul-hardening, faithless, beliefless doctrines of a chilling Socinianism!

1901 J. P. Mitchell tr. G. Warneck in Outl. Hist. Protestant Missions i. i. 18 Many had again become faithless, chiefly through Mohammedanism.

1911 Independent 19 Oct. 867/2 The science, the general skepticism, literature and philosophy from the West served to make the present faithless age.

1958 P. White Let. 8 Feb. (1994) v. 129 He accuses me of being child of a faithless generation—like Sartre. Fancy pulling that one out of the bag.

2002 I. Sundaresan Twentieth Wife 357 This uncivilized land with its faithless infidels.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Non-believers as a class; people without faith.

ΚΠ

1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p.ii They haue lurked there a few faythfull folke, amonge the greate many multytude of the faythlesse.

1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1320/1 That dede doone by y^e faythlesse is not meritorius at al.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 138^v A great number of others imagined by the faithlesse.

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket iv. 164 The faithfull are dead to sinne: the faithlesse are dead in sinne.

1787 J. Rann in Dramatic Wks. Shakspeare III. 114 (note) The faithless are said to eat their words.

1823 S. W. Morton My Mind & its Thoughts 229 In the faithless are seen doubt, despondency and anguish.

1880 Eclectic Mag. Apr. 495/1 Beneath it yawns the abyss of Gehenna, and the faithless will miss their footing, and tumble headlong into its depths.

2007 R. Corfe Deism & Social Ethics xiv. 168 The faithless are so often marked by a psychological pessimism.

Compounds

faithless elector n. (in a U.S. presidential election) a member of the electoral college who does not vote for the candidate for whom they had pledged to vote.

ΚΠ

1928 Hamtramck (Michigan) Public School Bull. Oct. 24/2 No elector has dared or chosen to break his pledge since 1796... Faithless Elector Miles is unique.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Jan. a2 The senators discussed the recurring problem of the ‘faithless elector’.

1994 R. M. Hardaway Electoral College & Constit. vi. 147 Faithless electors have cast only 7 out of 17,000 votes cast in the past 150 years, and have never come close to affecting an election.

2012 J. Conrad What You should know about Politics—but Don't (2nd ed.) i. 31 Twenty-four states have laws to punish faithless electors, though none have ever been prosecuted.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	faithless
释义	faithlessadj.n. Brit. /ˈfeɪθlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfeɪθlᵻs/ Forms: see faith n. and int. and -less suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: faith n., -less suffix. Etymology: < faith n. + -less suffix. Compare faithful adj. and unfaithful adj. With use as noun compare earlier infidel n. A. adj. 1. a. That does not possess or exhibit good faith, insincere; not faithful to one's promises, friends, spouse, etc.; perfidious, disloyal. Also with to. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > disloyalty > [adjective] unleal?a1300 faithlessc1390 disloyal1477 unloyal1576 disleal1590 illoyalc1630 disaffectionate1636 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > disloyalty > [adjective] unleal?a1300 faithlessc1390 disloyal1477 unloyal1576 disleal1590 illoyalc1630 disaffectionate1636 indevoteda1674 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. x. l. 135 (MED) Fals folk and Feiþles, þeoues and lyȝers. c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) i. l. 81 (MED) The fortune þat fallyn is feitheles peple. 1534 G. Joye tr. Jeremy Prophete iii. f.v^v Nether is this her faithles sister Juda aftir al these warningis returned vnto me with al hir herte, but faynedly and falsely. 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 133 Can hee think to finde mee faithfull towards him, that am faithlesse to mine owne father? 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii. §81. 478/2 A man..of a..faithless disposition. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 323 Domestic in his faithless roof I stay'd. 1786 E. Burke Speech 28 Apr. in Jrnls. House of Commons (1803) 41 649/1 The dangerous, faithless, and ill-concerted Projects of the..Council of Bombay. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in Poems 79 The faithless Flatterer. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 65 She had never been faithless to the royal bed. 1920 D. Vane Ferrybridge Myst. xiv. 170 He was a false lover, a faithless friend—a man without honor or principles. 1993 Empire Aug. 32/2 This..movie opens with cuckolded Bohringer murdering his faithless wife. b. Of a person or (in later use esp.) a thing: that cannot be trusted or relied on; untrustworthy, unreliable; unstable, deluding. Also in †faithless of oneself. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] ficklea1000 hinderyeapc1000 swikelc1000 as right (also stiff, straight, crooked, etc.) as a ram's hornOE fakenOE swikefulc1100 frakelc1175 swikec1175 wrenchfulc1225 wielfulc1275 ginfulc1300 guileful13.. treacherousc1330 guilesomea1382 guilousc1384 enginousa1393 deceivant1393 treacherc1400 serpentinec1422 deceivousa1425 guilyc1430 beguilous1483 slapea1500 fallacious1509 treget1519 gaudya1529 beguileful1530 Spanish1530 juggling?1531 snakish1532 prestigious?1534 knack-hardy1549 pratting1570 fogging1585 snakya1586 abusive1595 faithless1597 faiterous1600 guiled1600 trompant1605 amusing1609 braida1616 dodging1625 Ulyssean1639 tricksome1648 knackish1660 hocus-pocus1668 bubbling1675 rusé1689 tricking1697 trickish1705 lurching1728 tricksy1766 trickful1775 tricky1786 slippy1828 shirky1847 dodgy1861 sidewinding1902 slithery1902 hyping1968 deceiteous- 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 256 Men that were faithlesse of themselues, whose guise it was, either for rewardes, or for favour of the king, to say they had dreamed when they had not. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 138 Oh faithlesse Coward, oh dishonest wretch. 1697 D. Baker Poems upon Several Occas. i. 5 Cruel Love..makes thy faithless Vows serve for a Stone To whet his bloody Darts upon. 1738 S. Johnson London 239 The midnight murd'rer bursts the faithless bar. 1766 O. Goldsmith Ballad [the Hermit] in Vicar of Wakefield I. viii Yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 466 On every side, striving to tear us from this faithless anchorage, are the unquiet, grinding floes. 1896 Eagle Mar. 195 Ere the inevitable tide of time Level thy footprints on the faithless sands. 1913 M. Johnston Hagar xxxiv. 386 The sailor..now muttered prayers and now objurgations upon the faithless weather. 1945 Sewanee Rev. 53 266 Here is a faithless map for all your praise. 2007 P. Guest Notes for Body Double 61 The bulbs rising from the yard's thawed clod to the faithless sun of that February. 2. †a. Lacking confidence or trust. Also with †of, in. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [adjective] ortrowOE unbelievedc1200 unbelieffulc1380 untrowfulc1380 mislevefula1382 mistrowablea1382 mistrowfula1382 mistrowinga1382 unfaithfulc1384 faithlessa1400 unbelievinga1400 untrothfula1400 misbelieffula1425 out of beliefa1425 untraistfulc1480 untruthfulc1480 godless1528 irreligious1561 incredulous1578 atheistical1588 athean1611 atheal1612 atheous1612 beliefless1612 nullifidian1661 atheist1667 unreligious1814 nihilistic1848 know-nothing1862 nescient1863 non-theistic1863 agnostical?a1870 agnostic1870 non-theist1913 no-God1923 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6517 (MED) To þis fait-les lede Manna fel. 1611 Bible (King James) John xx. 27 And bee not faithlesse, but beleeuing. View more context for this quotation c1619 R. Jones in Phenix (1708) II. 482 They lost their Saviour and their souls to boot. They were now as faithless as their Fellow Judas, as faithless in their Master as he [sc. Judas] was to him [sc. Jesus]. 1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 123 The more sober sort..are not altogether faithlesse as to his innocency. 1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 22 A faithless discreditor of the gospel-report concerning Jesus. 1775 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 382/2 Is it not a most extraordinary story? And yet I am not faithless in that point, as many a reader probably is. 1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 74 Men are not now more faithless of Armageddon, than [etc.]. 1842 J. R. Lowell in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 480 And always 'tis the saddest sight to see An old man faithless in Humanity. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam civ. 163 The faithless coldness of the times. View more context for this quotation b. Lacking (esp. religious) faith or belief; spec. not having or following the religious faith which is regarded as true and correct; infidel. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > lack of Christianity > [adjective] unchristenc1000 unchristenedc1330 faithlessa1400 unchristian1563 unchristenlike1570 unchristianed1579 unchristianlike1610 unchristianly1643 unchristianized1778 unevangelized1813 a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 492 (MED) Crist forto venge Vpon þe faiþles folke þat hym fayntly slowen. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxix. 393 Thise Iues that felow thare faythles will. 1526 W. Tyndale Prol. Epist. Rom. Introd. sig. avii Whosoever doeth not good workes, is an vnbelevynge person and faythlesse, and loketh rounde a boute hym gropynge aftir fayth. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Rom. in Paraphr. New Test. Prol. sig. ††i Else shalt thou remaine euermore faithlesse. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B4^v At last him chaunst to meete vpon the way A faithlesse Sarazin. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 38 Tissaphernes a most godlesse and faithlesse man. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vi. 252 As faithlesse as the Jewes, are we. a1742 S. Weston Sermons (1747) I. xiii. 326 He that looks no farther than the Concerns of this present World, and even in them apprehends not the Authority and Justice of a Divine Governor, (which is the Case of the faithless Man) may indeed do Acts of Kindness and Beneficence to others. 1775 J. W. Fletcher Zelotes & Honestus Reconciled (ed. 2) i. xii. 157 The trial of the faithless Heathen came on. 1830 Casket Sept. 402/1 Byron the benevolent..who aided Greece with his gold, taught the faithless Moslem to be merciful. 1839 Churchman Aug. 256 The soul-hardening, faithless, beliefless doctrines of a chilling Socinianism! 1901 J. P. Mitchell tr. G. Warneck in Outl. Hist. Protestant Missions i. i. 18 Many had again become faithless, chiefly through Mohammedanism. 1911 Independent 19 Oct. 867/2 The science, the general skepticism, literature and philosophy from the West served to make the present faithless age. 1958 P. White Let. 8 Feb. (1994) v. 129 He accuses me of being child of a faithless generation—like Sartre. Fancy pulling that one out of the bag. 2002 I. Sundaresan Twentieth Wife 357 This uncivilized land with its faithless infidels. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Non-believers as a class; people without faith. ΚΠ 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p.ii They haue lurked there a few faythfull folke, amonge the greate many multytude of the faythlesse. 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1320/1 That dede doone by y^e faythlesse is not meritorius at al. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 138^v A great number of others imagined by the faithlesse. 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket iv. 164 The faithfull are dead to sinne: the faithlesse are dead in sinne. 1787 J. Rann in Dramatic Wks. Shakspeare III. 114 (note) The faithless are said to eat their words. 1823 S. W. Morton My Mind & its Thoughts 229 In the faithless are seen doubt, despondency and anguish. 1880 Eclectic Mag. Apr. 495/1 Beneath it yawns the abyss of Gehenna, and the faithless will miss their footing, and tumble headlong into its depths. 2007 R. Corfe Deism & Social Ethics xiv. 168 The faithless are so often marked by a psychological pessimism. Compounds faithless elector n. (in a U.S. presidential election) a member of the electoral college who does not vote for the candidate for whom they had pledged to vote. ΚΠ 1928 Hamtramck (Michigan) Public School Bull. Oct. 24/2 No elector has dared or chosen to break his pledge since 1796... Faithless Elector Miles is unique. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Jan. a2 The senators discussed the recurring problem of the ‘faithless elector’. 1994 R. M. Hardaway Electoral College & Constit. vi. 147 Faithless electors have cast only 7 out of 17,000 votes cast in the past 150 years, and have never come close to affecting an election. 2012 J. Conrad What You should know about Politics—but Don't (2nd ed.) i. 31 Twenty-four states have laws to punish faithless electors, though none have ever been prosecuted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1390
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