FAITHLESS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Faithless

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

adjective

Faithless adj.

Not believing; not giving credit. "Be not faithless, but believing."

Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.

Not observant of promises or covenants.

Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife. "A most unnatural and faithless service."

Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying. "Yonder faithless phantom."

See images of 'Faithless'

Etymology of 'Faithless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Faithless" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Marsilius!" cried Roland. "He is the most faithless of Pagans, and speaks only lies. Carry on the war as you have begun, and talk not of peace until Saragossa ...

— Hero Tales • James Baldwin

... wiped her eyes, and accosted him thus: "What! not one word of comfort? Will nothing soften that stony heart of thine? Not all my tears! not all my affliction! not the inevitable ruin thou hast brought upon me! Where are thy vows, thou faithless, perjured man? Hast thou no honour—no conscience—no remorse for thy perfidious conduct towards me? Answer me, wilt thou at last do me justice, or must I have recourse to heaven or hell for my revenge?" If poor Wagtail was amazed before ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... cat. "Rash youth!" he cried, rushing between the Fairy of the Desert and the King. "Dare to lay a finger upon this illustrious Fairy! Your quarrel is with me only. I am your enemy and your rival. That faithless Princess who would have married you is promised to me. See if she has not upon her finger a ring made of one of my hairs. Just try to take it off, and you will soon find out that I am more ...

— The Blue Fairy Book • Various

... and rejoice when they see evil descend upon them, and envy brings hatred in its wake, and so the Philistines first envied Isaac, and then hated him. In their enmity toward him, they stopped the wells which Abraham had had his servants dig. Thus they broke their covenant with Abraham and were faithless, and they have only themselves to blame if they were exterminated later on ...

— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... essential to Christian faith and practice. To obscure such a public declaration of Christian belief, by hiding these truths beneath an elaborate adornment that disguises or completely conceals them, is to be faithless to the commission of Jesus Christ to be a witness unto Him before the world; to neglect such witness-bearing, or by carelessness or inattention to detail, to render it in a manner so ineffective as to disparage the truth in the eyes of ...

— Presbyterian Worship - Its Spirit, Method and History • Robert Johnston

More quotes...