unbelief

CEFRB2

/ʌnbɪˈliːf/

noun

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noun
A lack of belief or trust in something.
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noun
Extra detail
An absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Unbelief can sometimes stem from a lack of reliable evidence.
On hands and knees he looked at the empty siding and up at the sunfilled sky with unbelief and despair.
And he coulde there ſhewe no myracles butt leyd his hondꝭ apon a feawe ſicke foolke ãd healed thẽ. And he merveyled at their vnbelefe.

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And he coulde there ſhewe no myracles butt leyd his hondꝭ apon a feawe ſicke foolke ãd healed thẽ. And he merveyled at their vnbelefe.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark vj:[5–6], folio lj, recto
On hands and knees he looked at the empty siding and up at the sunfilled sky with unbelief and despair.
1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 35
Soon Spinoza was regarded as the standard-bearer for unbelief, even though pervading his carefully-worded writings there is a clear notion of a divine spirit inhabiting the world, and a profound sense of wonder and reverence for mystery.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 781

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From Middle English unbilefe, unbileve, equivalent to un- + belief.