disbeliever

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Etymology[edit]

disbelieve +‎ -er or dis- +‎ believer

Noun[edit]

disbeliever (plural disbelievers)

  1. One who disbelieves; one who does not believe.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      How was it possible that I, a rational man, not unacquainted with the leading scientific facts of our history, and hitherto an absolute and utter disbeliever in all the hocus-pocus which in Europe goes by the name of the supernatural, could believe that I had within the last few minutes been engaged in conversation with a woman two thousand and odd years old?

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