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
Those who at once would have disbelieved the imputed guilt of Antagoras upon motives merely political, inclined to a suggestion that ascribed it to the jealousy of a lover.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Arise to serve the Cause of God, in such wise that the cares and sorrows caused by them that have disbelieved in the Dayspring of the Signs of God may not afflict you.
From The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
Had I been new to the border I should have disbelieved my companion’s statement.
From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison
I defy anyone to have disbelieved in black kittens at that moment.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
