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English Dictionary: disbelieving by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disbelieving
adj
  1. denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles"
    Synonym(s): disbelieving, skeptical, sceptical, unbelieving
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Disbelieve \Dis`be*lieve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disbelieved};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Disbelieving}.]
      Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not
      to be true or actual.
  
               Assertions for which there is abundant positive
               evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is
               called their improbability or impossibility. --J. S.
                                                                              Mill.
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