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I know your God can all my woes redress; To him I made my vows in my distress: And, what a misbeliever vowed this day, Though not a queen, a Christian yet shall pay.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

A 'miscreant,' at the first, meant simply a misbeliever.

From On the Study of Words by Trench, Richard Chenevix

Averroes himself was accused of having been first a Mussulman, then a Christian, then a Jew, and finally a misbeliever.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William

Barber," eying him not without emotion, "you appear to me not so much a misbeliever, as a man misled.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

He who is suffering the penalties of the law as a heretic, or who is pursued by judicial persecution as a misbeliever, will readily consort with others reputed to cherish similar infidelities.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William