unbelievedadj.
/ˌʌnbᵻˈliːvd/, U.S. /ˌənbəˈlivd/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
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 81 Þe grimliche wordes þe ure helende..gaf to andswere þe unbilefde iudeuisshe men.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 191 Vnbileued heis þe luueð to muchel & ȝiscet worldes weoleole & wunne.
a1400 New Test. (Paues) Titus i. 16 Þei beþ abhomynabel, & vnbylefed, & reprefabel to eferich good werk.
c1450 Mirk's Festial i. 139 Phylyp was send..forto prech Godis worde to þe vnbeleued pepull.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adjective] > unbelievable
unlevelyOE
untrowablea1382
incredible1412
unbelievedc1425
inopinable?a1475
unbelievable1548
discredible1580
too good to be true1580
incomprehensible1604
incredulousa1616
intestablea1631
inconceivable1646
unpersuasive1651
inconceptiblea1676
c1425 in Anglia X. 342 Turmentede with vnbylevede sorowe.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B1v Nay, to so vnbeleeued a poynt hee proceeded, as that no earthly thing bred such wonder to a Prince, as to be a good horseman.
1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King ii. sig. E1 I made his valour stoope, and made that name Soar'd to so vnbelieu'd a height, to fall Beneath mine.
3. Not believed; disbelieved.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adjective] > not believed
untrowed1432
misdoubted?1570
uncredited1586
unbelieveda1616
increditedc1633
unreceived1825
miscredited1837
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 119 Heauen shield your Grace from woe, As I thus wrong'd, hence vnbeleeued goe. View more context for this quotation
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) Pref. sig. B2v But yet specially, in the first point, of beleeuing That there is a God, that is of all the rest the most vnbeleeued.
1655 J. Jane in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 223 It cannot be long vnbeleeved, being soe farr advanced especially in the French leauge.
1819 W. Wordsworth Haunted Tree 27 Nor is it unbelieved, By ruder fancy, that a troubled ghost Haunts the old trunk.
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen viii. 137 The unbelieved Cassandra was right after all.
1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxxi. 250 All which teachings have..passed from deed and truth into mere monotony of unbelieved phrase.
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adj.c1200