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infidel

/in-fi-dl, -del/US // ˈɪn fɪ dl, -ˌdɛl //UK // (ˈɪnfɪdəl) //

异教徒,不忠者,异端,不忠者的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Religion. a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity. an unbeliever, especially a Muslim. a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kafir.
    • : a person who has no religious faith; unbeliever.
    • : a person who disbelieves or doubts a particular theory, belief, creed, etc.; skeptic.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not accepting a particular faith, especially Christianity or Islam; heathen.
    • : without religious faith.
    • : due to or manifesting unbelief: infidel ideas.
    • : rejecting the Christian religion while accepting no other; not believing in the Bible or any Christian divine revelation.
    • : Also in·fi·del·ic [in-fi-del-ik]. /ˌɪn fɪˈdɛl ɪk/. of, relating to, or characteristic of unbelievers or infidels.

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Examples

  • 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."