infidel
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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One who does not believe in a certain religion.
— The infidel writer is a greater enemy to society.
- One who does not believe in a certain principle.
- One with no religious beliefs.
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An openly Islamophobic individual receiving or seeking praise from other Islamophobic people.
— I am a proud infidel. I believe in Jesus Chirst, the Son of God who died on the cross for my sins.
形容词 adj.
- Rejecting a specific religion.
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Of, characteristic of, or relating to unbelievers or unbelief.
— (...) how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth;(...)
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
First attested 1460, from Middle French infidèle, from Latin īnfidēlis (“unfaithful”), from in- (“not”) + fidēlis (“faithful”). See fidelity.
词源 2
First attested 1460, from Middle French infidèle, from Latin īnfidēlis (“unfaithful”), from in- (“not”) + fidēlis (“faithful”). See fidelity.
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