What is "disbelieved"

Usage examples of "disbelieved".

The Sadducees were inclined to Hellenism and disbelieved in life after death.

A judge disbelieved Alfredo’s defence that the policeman had asked to see into his safe, and extracted the notes himself, and Alfredo received two years in jail.

I had supposed that if my hearers disbelieved the Gospels, they would do so because the Gospels recorded miracles.

But my impression is that they disbelieved them simply because they dealt with events that happened a long time ago: that they would be almost as incredulous of the battle of Actium as of the Resurrection and for the same reason.

Be assured that I myself disbelieved at first, and that I have now painfully been convinced by several ear-witnesses of the truth of what I have reluctantly told thee.

Although he disbelieved in her deities, he believed in the allegories they represented (or rather he interpreted those allegories anew).

He awoke—he collected himself—he blessed the gods whom he disbelieved, that he was in a dream—he turned his eyes from side to side—he saw the dawning light break through his small but lofty window—he was in the Precincts of Day—he rejoiced—he smiled.

But the necessity of SOMETHING besides accuracy of response may be brought out by the following consideration: Suppose two persons, of whom one believed whatever the other disbelieved, and disbelieved whatever the other believed.

He had never asked for verification, and she had no idea whether he still disbelieved her story or not.

But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection.

Many of the mad cried out, but some, once fooled, disbelieved it in silence.