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unfaith

American  
[uhn-fayth] / ʌnˈfeɪθ /

noun

  1. lack of faith, especially religious faith; unbelief.


Etymology

Origin of unfaith

First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English unfeith; un- 1 ( def. ) + faithful ( def. )

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“Our interfaith voices, our unfaith voices, for the commonwealth that is our voice.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2018

But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, `This is it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The muses never yet inspired with their highest tunes, whether in prose or verse, men of this degree of unfaith.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs by John Morley

Unfaith in another is not unfaith in me.

From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards

"Is her acquiescence genuine, complete?" he tormented himself with thinking, and then scourged his doubting spirit for foul unfaith.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

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