[UN-1 12.] Lack of faith or belief, esp. in religion.

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1415.  Hoccleve, To Sir J. Oldcastle, 247. For thyn vnfeith men maken many mones.

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1826.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. 272. At the end of one of her daily professions of unfaith in gipsies and their predictions.

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1859.  Tennyson, Merl. & V., 366. Faith and unfaith can ne’er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.

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1870.  Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 81. Another form of bastard belief, another cross-breed between faith and unfaith.

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