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Definition of "unfaith" [un•faith]

  • Absence of faith, especially in religion. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unfaith" in a sentence
  • "I don't believe that you're predestined as it were to 'unfaith' that God says 'it's not much use wasting my time of Humphrys!'"
  • "But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it."
  • "Heidegger is also a major dialogue partner, and he is quoted on p.245 as having written that "a faith that does not perpetually expose itself to the possibility of unfaith is no faith but merely a convenience"."