Word Finder - faithless

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Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.

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Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.

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Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)

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Not observant of promises or covenants.

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Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows

synonyms

• disloyal
• perfidious
• treacherous

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Serving to disappoint or deceive

synonyms

• delusive
• unsatisfying

In later Judaism it was the purgatory of faithless Jews, who at last reached Paradise, but it.

I've won tickets to see faithless that evening.

The popular legends of Sicily also inspired his muse; he was the first to introduce the shepherd Daphnis who came to a miserable end after he had proved faithless to the nymph who loved him.

The wonder is that in so faithless, treacherous, and cruel a monarch, any confidence anywhere was left.

The queen, Eleanor of Aragon, whom he had left in Cyprus during his long visits to the West, had proved faithless.

Gregory empowered her to treat for peace, but the Florentine ambassadors were first tardy and then faithless.

In 1773 a Don Cossack called Pugachev, who was so uneducated that he could not even sign the manifestoes written for him, declared himself to be Peter III., and announced that he was going to St Petersburg to punish his faithless wife and place his son Paul on the throne.

In the younger contemporary prophet of Ephraim, Hosea, the stress is laid on the relation of love (hesed) between Yahweh, the divine husband, and Israel, the faithless spouse.

In politics he carried on the feuds of his family with the Berbers, and in his efforts to extend his dominions could be as faithless as his father.

The result of this change in the attitude of Gregory was the formation of a strong malcontent party in the College of Cardinals; to counteract whose influence, the pope - faithless to the conditions attached to his election - resorted to the plan of creating new members.

In the next battle Spartacus was worsted and retreated towards the straits of Messina, intending to cross into Sicily, where he would have been welcomed by fresh hordes of slaves; but the pirates who had agreed to transport his army proved faithless.

The burlesque drama assigned to Christian Hansen, The Faithless Wife, is the only one of its kind that has survived.

She is constantly invoked, in the well-known idyll (ii.) of Theocritus, in the incantation to bring back a woman's faithless lover.

Among aboriginal tribes in India (Dalton, p. 186) the Moon is the Sun's bride; she was faithless and he cut her in two, but occasionally lets her shine in full beauty.

Since the Frankish monarchy was now in their power some of, them tried to reestablish the unity of that monarchy in all its integrity, together with the superiority of the State over the Church; others, faithless to the idea of unity, saw in the disintegration of the state and the supremacy of the nobles a warrant for their own independence.

The payment of blackmail, disguised as presents er ransoms, did not always secure safety with these faithless barbarians.

Even if his decision was brought about by libel on the part of the suitor's friend this was done, and the Code enacted that the faithless friend should not marry the girl.