misbeliever

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A 'miscreant,' at the first, meant simply a misbeliever.

From On the Study of Words by Trench, Richard Chenevix

Barber," eying him not without emotion, "you appear to me not so much a misbeliever, as a man misled.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

In a letter written during the reign of Malek Shah, he suggested the idea of a crusade against the misbeliever, which later popes carried out.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry

Averroes himself was accused of having been first a Mussulman, then a Christian, then a Jew, and finally a misbeliever.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William

I know your God can all my woes redress; To him I made my vows in my distress: And, what a misbeliever vowed this day, Though not a queen, a Christian yet shall pay.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir