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Definition of Nonbeliever
1. Noun. Someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity).
Generic synonyms: Nonreligious Person
Specialized synonyms: Atheist, Irreligionist, Materialist
Derivative terms: Disbelieve
Definition of Nonbeliever
1. Noun. a person who does not believe; especially regarding religion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonbeliever
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonbeliever
Literary usage of Nonbeliever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1910)
"This being the case, the dying declaration may be discredited by showing that
the declarant was a nonbeliever in God; and such testimony is for the jury to ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1914)
"This being the case, the dying declaration may be discredited by showing that
the declarant was a nonbeliever;'and such testimony is for the jury to pass on ..."
3. Selected Quotations on Peace and War: With Especial Reference to a Course of by Commission on Christian Education (1915)
"He is thenceforth to be treated as a nonbeliever or as one ... The truly Christlike
attitude toward publican or nonbeliever was never that of enforced ..."
4. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney (1914)
"It is not necessary, in order to render such testimony admissible, that it should
show that the deceased was a nonbeliever at or near the time he made the ..."
5. At the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson (1997)
"A strange trip for a nonbeliever. A myocardial infarction case: "She went to a
place where she saw high mountains covered with snow. All white. ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"State, 3 Utah 396. This qualification will be treated at length under Challenge
for Cause, infra, Belief.—A nonbeliever cannot serve as a juror in Maryland. ..."
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