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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Ŭn/be-lief’,, n.

noun

n. [From prefix un and belief; A-S. ungeleafa.]

  1. The withholding of belief; incredulity.
  2. Especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption; skepticism; infidelity.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his works in vain. Cowper. Syn.—See DISBELIEF.