misbelieving
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom misbelieve + -ing.
Verb
editmisbelieving
- present participle and gerund of misbelieve
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English misbilevinge, equivalent to misbelieve + -ing.
Noun
editmisbelieving (plural misbelievings)
- The refusal to believe something; disbelief, or an instance of this.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, II.12:
- I know a man of authority, brought up in letters, who confessed unto me, that he was reclaimed from out the errours of mis-beleeving by the Arguments of Sebond.