unfaith

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noun

Absence of faith.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noununfaith (usually uncountable, plural unfaiths)

plural unfaiths

  1. uncountableusuallyAbsence of faith.

    Remember old years and do not break your oath with me, Jehane, since God abhors nothing so much as unfaith.

    1921, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry
    2 more examples

    The true religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.

    1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy

    But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution.

    1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain

Origin

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APA

unfaith. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfaith

MLA

“unfaith.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfaith. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unfaith,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfaith.

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