unfaith
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of unfaith
First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English unfeith; un- 1 ( def. ) + faithful ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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
But Ulysses would not be Ulysses, unless he showed the other side too, that of unfaith, weak complaint, and temporary irresolution.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
He proceeded to recount his own unfaith in thirteen's black magic, also in the traditional properties of salt and broken mirrors.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
Strange horror and hope, strange faith and unfaith, were his boon and his bane: And the God of his trust was the wraith of the soul or the ghost of it slain.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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