misbelieving

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In 1975, Jaws took shark phobia to new heights, “galvanizing whole generations into misbelieving that sharks were bloodthirsty man-eaters,” MacPherson says.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2013

Raban Maur and the Anonymous monk of Clairvaux also call it a misbelieving Jew; Peter of Capua compares it to the Cross; Saint Eucher calls it wisdom, and there are other meanings.

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

The mighty Máhmúd, the victorious Lord That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.

From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward

"How did you get here ahead of us?" asked the Princess, still misbelieving her senses.

From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Goddard, Charles

Nor let the slow and misbelieving wight Doubt how the fire on the hard earth may seize; No more then how those waters erst did light Upon the sinfull world.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry