Word Meanings - MISFAITH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Want of faith; distrust. " born of your misfaith." Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to MISFAITH)
- DISTRUSTLESS
Free from distrust. Shenstone. - FAITHLESS
1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true - FAITHED
Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. "Make thy words faithed." Shak. - MISFAITH
Want of faith; distrust. " born of your misfaith." Tennyson. - FAITH
fr. L. fides; akin to fidere to trust, Gr. th is perhaps due to the influence of such words as truth, health, wealth. See Bid, Bide, and 1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly - DISTRUST
To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - DISTRUSTFUL
1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope. 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. Boyle. -- Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv. - DISTRUSTER
One who distrusts. - DISTRUSTING
That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- Dis*trust"ing*ly, adv. - FAITHFUL
1. Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. You are not faithful, sir. B. Jonson. 2. Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements. The faithful God, - UNFAITH
Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson. - UNFAITHFUL
1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His - I' FAITH
. In faith; indeed; truly. Shak. - SELF-DISTRUST
Want of confidence in one' self; diffidence.