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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unbeliever
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among all the saints sat an unbeliever.
▪ She could make even the unbelievers know that she had drunk from the Spiritual fountains of water.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbeliever

Unbeliever \Un`be*liev"er\, n.

  1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.

  2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.

    Syn: See Infidel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unbeliever

"one who does not believe in any given religion," 1520s, from un- (1) "not" believer. Old English had ungelifend in this sense.\n

Wiktionary
unbeliever

n. One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe other people)

WordNet
unbeliever

n. someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) [syn: disbeliever, nonbeliever]

Usage examples of "unbeliever".

Truth once more, but if you cling to apostasy, then even as he foretold, you will be cast into the Fire, and all other unbelievers with you.

Church, as represented by me, sympathises with the message of Sherard Blaw, while neither the man nor his message find acceptance with unbelievers like you, Lady Caroline.

Gilbert was neither an unbeliever nor a scorner, and he stood his ground confidently.

I wished first to see their temples and their mode of worship, before I decided whether I would be an unbelieving believer or a believing unbeliever.

He could not do them absolutely, but that it was not fitting for Him to do them: for it was unfitting for Him to work miracles among unbelievers.

Wilson was a full-blooded Englishman and unreconstructed Unbeliever who somehow contrived to make Hamid-Jones feel as if the Arab half of his ancestry was worth less than the English half.

Hassan of Aleppo would visit any unbeliever who ventured to lay hand upon the holy, bloody thing.

Unbelievers, they had foolishly bet Haas five bucks apiece that his wife did not have a tattoo on her forearm.

Not many unbelievers expended the effort to learn the difficult, guttural tongue, which was why Zahrtohgahn physicians must, in addition to being accomplished mindspeakers, learn so many languages and dialects, since the Great Council of Masters might send a given physician and his apprentice to any one of a far-flung range of posts.

They all wore the jibba, the patched robes which symbolized the rags that had been the only garb available to them at the beginning of this jihad against the godless, the unbelievers, the infidels.

Further, just as the believer is distinguished from the unbeliever by the sacraments of the New Law, so was it under the Old Law.

Church, as represented by me, sympathises with the message of Sherard Blaw, while neither the man nor his message find acceptance with unbelievers like you, Lady Caroline.

Fortunately, downtown Tangiers had been built by the French, a thirsty lot, and the pragmatic Arabs were willing to tolerate the sinful behavior of the unbelievers as long as it was profitable.

These tales were often laughed at by some of the sturdier among the rustics, yet when night came on there were many of the stoutest unbelievers that were shy of venturing alone in the footpath that led across the churchyard.

Beyond the fact that they were unbelievers and heretics, there was no agreement.