disbelieve
verb (used with object)
to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in.
have disbelieved
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present perfectof disbelieve.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Chief Justice Roberts dismissed the arguments as speculation and said the fact that the jury might have disbelieved the statements “gives us no confidence that it would have done so.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2012
I ask you, Graham, who would have disbelieved the evidence of letter and tombstone?'
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
Men have disbelieved the incarnation, because told that all there was of it was in Christ; and they reject what is presented as exceptional to the general way of God.
From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by James Morris Whiton
Had it been any one else they, too, would have disbelieved the possibility of Ronald Mervyn having murdered Margaret Carne.
From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He affirms that "this theme hath ... been a sore test unto all mankind", and laments the fate of "those who, clinging unto these words, have disbelieved in Him Who is their true Revealer".
From The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
