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unbelief

[uhn-bi-leef] / ˌʌn bɪˈlif /


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The cultural chasm between Europeans and Africans presented obstacles to conversion, and a long legacy of church practice forbidding the enslavement of fellow Christians provided grounds to leave slaves in unbelief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Whatever world-changing power we might seek, whatever influence we might hope to wield, starts with the ancient prayer: Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2021

While celebrating after Game 5, Birdsong looked into Philadelphia’s thinning crowd and saw Erving’s then-wife, Turquoise, “in unbelief, shocked” in the stands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2021

By the time Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead, this book argues, the “emotional shape” of unbelief was long in place, and with it the forces that disseminate Western secularism.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019

At her brilliant eyes and tremulous smile her two daughters stared in unbelief.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare


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