Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unfaith

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-faith
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Absence of faith.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The true religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other."
"But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution."
"Remember old years and do not break your oath with me, Jehane, since God abhors nothing so much as unfaith."

Etymology

From un- + faith.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

unfaiths (plural)

Questions

What does unfaith mean?: Absence of faith.
Where does unfaith come from?: From un- + faith.

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