She disbelieved altogether in punishment, except when it was likely to do good, either to the person punished or to others.
Not that he was a libertine, but he disbelieved in marriage, excepting for so long as husband and wife are a necessity to one another.
There was general surprise, because many had disbelieved the reports of the engagement.
I've never found a dozen men in my life who disbelieved in the Bible but what they were hugging some secret sin.
I never met any man or woman in my life who disbelieved in Christianity but could not be classified under one of these two headings.
The alteration was made under the auspices of Warburton to get rid of the imputation that Pope doubted or disbelieved the immortality of the soul.
It follows that the objectors disbelieved in the immortality of the soul, and that Pope thought their demand for immortality unreasonable.
And this he did, not only because I happened to say very little, but forasmuch as he disbelieved half of the truth I told him, through his own too great sagacity.
She simply disbelieved the thing, and trusted God to right it.
Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.
A state of society in which firearms had been unknown was a thing Cigarette had never heard of, and in which she would have contumeliously disbelieved if she had been told of it.
I wouldn't have disbelieved even if He'd taken you away from me.
So perfectly natural and easy was Mildred's manner, that Tims already half disbelieved her own eyes.
Mabel disbelieved him and refused to go, and I should have captured him if the fiend he serves had not lent him a helping hand.
If I disbelieved or doubted the proposition to be proved, I should equally disbelieve or doubt the proposition given to prove it.
Both Aristotle and Plato would have us believe that Protagoras was bound by his canon to declare every opinion to be alike false and true, because every opinion was believed by some and disbelieved by others.
He has always been a particularly straightforward, honest, and honourable lad; there is not a boy in the house of whom I would so absolutely have disbelieved this tale.
Of course you are at liberty to believe him now, just as you believed him at first, and as, on mature consideration, you disbelieved him afterwards; but that is a matter quite of individual opinion.
The young heir and those near to him altogether disbelieved the marriage,--as was natural.
He utterly disbelievedin it; and in his heart of hearts he felt that he would make a better and a fitter husband to this girl than would an earl, with all an earl's temptation to vice.
Then in her ardent way, wanting to plead with him, she moved from her chair and went in front of him to her old place in the window, saying, "Do you suppose that I ever disbelieved in you?
On the contrary, she would have expressed the prettiest surprise and disapprobation if she had heard that another young lady had been detected in that immodest prematureness--indeed, would probably have disbelieved in its possibility.
They talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked of a battle but alsodisbelieved in the nearness of an engagement.
Pierre absolutely disbelieved both the princess' hints and the letter, but he feared now to look at Dolokhov, who was sitting opposite him.
But Bruce was disbelieved in toto; and it was even proclaimed that he had never been in Abyssinia at all!
Hath not the story reached you of those who disbelieved of yore, and therefore tasted the evil consequences of their doings?
They who were before you, asked concerning such things, and afterwards quickly disbelieved therein God hath not ordained anything on the subject.
There are no indications of it in the Zendavesta; and Herodotus says, that the Persians were unlike the Greeks, in so far as they disbelieved in a god having a human form; book i.
I implore Thee, O my Lord, by Thy name out of which all the treasures of the earth were brought forth, to shield me from the hints of such as have disbelieved in Thee and repudiated Thy truth.
Thou beholdest my tribulations and all that hath befallen me at the hands of such of Thy servants as keep company with me, who have disbelieved in Thy most resplendent signs, and turned back from Thy most effulgent Beauty.
No sooner, however, had He been made manifest through Whose word the kingdom of names and the heaven of eternity were created, than they broke away from Him and disbelieved in the greatest of Thy signs.
And when the world’s horizon was illumined, and He Who is the Most Great Name was manifested, all disbelieved in Him and in His signs, except such as have been carried away by the sweetness of Thy glorification and praise.
I beseech Thee by Thy Name, the Restrainer, to withhold from us the maleficence of Thine adversaries who have disbelievedin Thy testimony, and caviled at Thy beauty.
Send down, also, upon me, O my God, that which will wash me from anything that is not of Thee, and deliver me from Thine enemies who have disbelieved in Thy signs.
This is the Ocean that moveth by the power of Thy sovereign might, and whose waves the influence of the infidels that have disbelieved in the Judgment Day can never still.
The servant could not believe the sexton, who, on the other hand, disbelieved the servant when he asserted that he had seen a funeral that day.
Most people then believed in "ghosts" and held it no shame to do so; while the minority of the superior who disbelieved took no pains to dissemble their scorn and contempt for those who did.
He represented Republican principles and aims more fully than any man in the country, but Thurlow Weed, looking into the future through the eyes of a practical politician, disbelieved in Republican success.
Republicans, on the other hand, disbelievedin banks.
Alexander said that he disbelieved those who called him a god chiefly in regard to sleep and the sexual delight, for in both those things he was more ignoble and emotional than in other respects.
And so they never get believed, though credit is the aim of every speech; for to inspire belief in one's hearers is the proper end of speech, but praters are disbelieved even when they tell the truth.
Adam's readers generally disbelieved the "trustworthy reports of the Danes," and when they thought of Vinland at all, doubtless thought of it as somewhere near the North Pole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disbelieved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: discredited; disputed; exploded; moot; suspect
