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infidel

[in-fi-dl, -del] / ˈɪn fɪ dl, -ˌdɛl /


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“Word battles were wild and furious; and Liberal soon became known, not only as an infidel or atheist town, but as a very strange town,” author J.P.

From Washington Times Jan. 8, 2017

Its slickest publication had been Dabiq, a magazine named for a Syrian town where, in the seventh century, Armageddon was prophesied to play out in an apocalyptic battle with infidel forces from the Roman Empire.

From The New Yorker Dec. 4, 2016

He proudly calls himself an infidel and a deplorable.

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2016

There was an assumption that they would be greeted as liberators, rather than infidel invaders - as shown by the removal of hard hats for soft berets in the early stages of occupation.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2016

The sceptic, the metaphysician, the "infidel" have given way to the professional savant.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

During the civil war, the Druze were largely unwilling to ally with Assad but were wary of the opposition, which was dominated by hard-line Sunni Islamist groups, some of whom viewed Druze as infidels.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2025

A religious minority living in Iraq for nearly 6,000 years, the Yazidis were considered infidels by the IS fighters.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2023

The word “kuffar” is Arabic for nonbelievers or infidels.

From Seattle Times Apr. 4, 2023

This wasn't only because the Western rulers were infidels.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2022

He suspects that Humboldt, Spencer, Huxley, and Tyndall are all infidels, and that the sum and substance of Evolution, as taught by Darwin, is that man is the lineal descendant of the monkey.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook




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