infidel
IPA: ˈɪnfɪdɛɫ
noun
- (now usually derogatory) One who does not believe in a certain religion.
- (now usually derogatory) One who does not believe in a certain principle.
- (now usually derogatory) One with no religious beliefs.
adjective
- Rejecting a specific religion.
- Of, characteristic of, or relating to unbelievers or unbelief.
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Examples of "infidel" in Sentences
- Al Shahab as they're known, are battling what they called the infidel Christian occupier Ethiopia and (inaudible) its regime.
- That, of course, has been hotly debated from the election of 1800 to today, and Jefferson has been called an infidel, a Deist and more.
- And how does a bunch of "infidels" like us make any deal with Muslims, whose Holy Book says that no promise to an infidel is binding upon Muslims?
- In this document Lincoln seemed to make two different claims: that he never believed in infidel doctrines, and that he never publicly espoused them.
- Note 257: Like barbarian, the term infidel is unavoidably subjective and reflexive: often it is used to describe "others" that are beyond one's sphere of familiarity.
- At a time when the term infidel or unbeliever was still the accusation of choice, the rejoinder that one was a-gnostic -- literally, "against gnosis" -- meant that he or she was taking a principled stand against ancient systems of belief.
- And though the application of the term infidel to such a man would not fail to arouse his fiercest indignation, his indifference to the events and the fate of the great hereafter can arise from nothing else than an utter disbelief in the teachings of Holy
- The term infidel was used by Christians to describe non-Christians or those perceived as the enemies of Christianity, especially to designate monotheists (Muslims) who do not subscribe to the Judeo-Christian concept of God, and thus differs from heathen or pagan.
- But if you introduce such a mixture into the stomach, and thence into the brain of an already fiery Bedouin; and then introduce the Bedouin to trouble; and if, in addition to the trouble, you provide impertinent, alien, and what he calls infidel restraint, it is fair to presume that the mixture might explode.
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