Misbelief vs Unbelief - What's the difference?
misbelief | unbelief |
An absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Mark VI:
* 1931 , (William Faulkner), Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 35:
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 781:
As nouns the difference between misbelief and unbelief
is that misbelief is an erroneous belief while unbelief is an absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief.unbelief
English
Noun
(en-noun)- And he coulde there shewe no myracles butt leyd his hondes apon a feawe sicke foolke and healed them. And he merveyled at their unbelefe .
- On hands and knees he looked at the empty siding and up at the sunfilled sky with unbelief and despair.
- Soon Spinoza was regarded as the standard-bearer for unbelief , even though pervading his carefully-worded writings there is a clear notion of a divine spirit inhabiting the world, and a profound sense of wonder and reverence for mystery.