To disbelieve that arbitrary power naturally and habitually perpetrates cruelties, where it can do it with impunity, is not only ignorance of man, but of things.
Mr. Dickey's first letter has been scattered all over the country, south and north; and though multitudes have affected to disbelieveits statements, Kentuckians know the truth of them quite too well to call them in question.
If slaveholders disbelieve any statement of cruelty inflicted upon a slave, it is not on account of its enormity.
Though the people of the free states affect todisbelieve the cruelties perpetrated upon the slaves, yet slaveholders believe each other guilty of them, and speak of them with the utmost freedom.
And as regards witchcraft, a man is bound either to believe in it, or to disbelieve the Bible.
I am well aware that some people now begin to doubt about witchcraft; or at any rate feign to do so; being desirous to disbelieve whatever they are afraid of.
The ladies of the family, the two aunts, had affected todisbelieve the paragraph which Lady Fitzwarren had shown them with so much triumph.
So that they who disbelieve all wonderful relations do in some measure take away all philosophy.
And Themistocles replied, that Chrysippus only proposed such things by the by, as instances to correct us, who easily assent and without any reason to what seems likely, and disbelieve everything that seems unlikely at the first sight.
How far it is a matter of choice to believe or to disbelieve it is not possible to define.
Disbelieve if you choose and Religion will do nothing but perpetually repeat its warnings and add that your disbelief has lowered you in the scale of being.
The character of our Lord as revealed in the Gospels makes it impossible to disbelieve His claims whatever they may be.
Men came gradually to disbelieve in witchcraft because they learned gradually to look upon it as absurd.
I knew it then, only, in my blind rage, I affected to disbelieve it.
Shall I tell the child to pray for you no more; that you disbelieve in a soul?
Only--only, at least, do not mock me; do not disbelieve me!
No active partisan, theological or scientific, now denies the existence of a Supreme Being, or professes to disbelieve the Scriptures.
Let the earth open at his feet, let hell itself look at him with its red and cunning eyes, he will disbelieve hell itself.
And dare I disbelieve the mercy of God when this chick believes in my human kindness, in my human heart?
I have no reason to disbelieve it; no wish to disbelieve it.
I did, therefore, disbelieve the story Mary Marchmont told me.
Moreover, it is irrational, on sufficient testimony, to disbelieve that He has sometimes so interposed.
But what is to be thought of persons who disbelieve just whatever they dislike, and yet profess to be just as hearty believers as you or I?
If your friend comes to you with ever so improbable a tale, the last thing which enters into your mind is to disbelieve him.
I don't know, after all, whether to accept what has been related to me, or whether to disbelieve it.
I gasped, half inclined to disbelieve the man's story, for he was evidently on the look-out for a substantial tip.
Aside from this, not even those who disbelieve in God have perpetrated such unseemly acts.
Thus were foiled the plots of those who disbelieve in the verses of the All-Merciful.
We neither of us are such fools as to disbelieve a futurity, or to think, whatever be our practice, that we came hither by chance, and for no end but to do all the mischief we have it in our power to do.
Do not force me henceforth to disbelieve in the purity of any created thing.
Theodore, wildly: "It is because of His goodness and because of the perfection of His nature, that I disbelieve the possibility of His Love to the wretched race of man!
Without noticing this question, the Spirit repeated, in emphatic tones, "To disbelieve the Love of God is to doubt His goodness, and deny the perfection of His nature!
Whereupon the Spirit continued, "To disbelieve the love of God is to doubt His goodness.
The gardens caused Emily to disbelieve in the existence of Mortimer Street, but the house at times caused her to disbelieve in herself.
Although everyone pretended to disbelieve him, Harlow stuck to his version of the story.
It was because I believed in him during the first three years, and during the second three I had already lost so much time that I dared not disbelieve in him.
As a woman of the world, I believed there must be such chapters in the biography of a young man who had lived twenty-eight whole years; as a woman in love with the young man of twenty-eight, I longed to disbelieve in them.
I can't disbelieve the evidence of my own eyes, however incredible it may appear.
Because, after all, she could not disbelieve the evidence of her own senses.
Disbelieve as you will in electric spiritual force," I said.
That is the only portion of Casimir's fortune-telling that I am inclined todisbelieve thoroughly.
But all those who disbelieve Our signs shall be the companions of the left hand, over whom shall be a vault of fire.
All those who fear God will receive the prophet's warning, but all those who disbelieve shall be cast into terrible fire where they will neither live nor die.
Each of these churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all.
If any man say that he cannot find it, I am bound to disbelieve him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disbelieve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deny; disbelieve; discredit; distrust; doubt; negate; reject; scoff; suspect
