faithlessness

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faithlessness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Faithless \Faith"less\, a.
     1. Not believing; not giving credit.
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              Be not faithless, but believing.      --John xx. 27.
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     2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not
        believing in the Christian religion. --Shak.
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     3. Not observant of promises or covenants.
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     4. Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious;
        trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as
        a husband or a wife.
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              A most unnatural and faithless service. --Shak.
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     5. Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
        "Yonder faithless phantom." --Goldsmith. --
        Faith"less*ly, adv.Faith"less*ness, n.
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faithlessness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  faithlessness
      n 1: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
           [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness,
           inconstancy]