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infidel
[ in-fi-dl, -del ]
noun
- Religion. Often Disparaging and Offensive. a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity or Islam.
- a person who has no religious faith; unbeliever.
- (loosely) a person who disbelieves or doubts a particular theory, belief, creed, etc.; skeptic:
When it came to ghosts, he was a self-confessed infidel.
adjective
- Often Disparaging and Offensive. not accepting a particular faith, especially Christianity or Islam.
- without religious faith.
- Also in·fi·del·ic [] of, relating to, or characteristic of unbelievers.
- relating to or showing unbelief:
Our infidel ideas about artificial intelligence make us pariahs in the academic community.
infidel
/ ˈɪnfɪdəl /
noun
- a person who has no religious belief; unbeliever
adjective
- rejecting a specific religion, esp Christianity or Islam
- of, characteristic of, or relating to unbelievers or unbelief
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Leaflets were widely distributed during that era saying that facial covering was what separated the Muslim woman from the infidel.
It is immaterial if the infidel is a combatant or a civilian.
They call us the village that protects infidel U.S. soldiers.
Safi makes the same threat toward other villagers and warns them never again to help a wounded “infidel” soldier.
And to them and to their base, Obama is the biggest infidel of all and Obamacare the greatest impiety.
Huxley quotes with satirical gusto Dr. Wace's declaration as to the word "Infidel."
But a little earlier still, to be an Infidel was to be an outlaw, subject to the penalty of death.
Those who hold the truth cannot enter into it with the infidel, the unbeliever, the erroneous or profane.
In London some years before, she had been the pupil of a learned minister, who had become an infidel, and also unscrupulous.
Let us suppose that any one denying the theory of Laplace or the theory of Copernicus would be reviled as an "Infidel."
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