giaour

noun

Definition of giaournext
as in misbeliever

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  1. unbeliever
  2. infidel
  3. atheist
  4. pagan
  5. nonbeliever
Noun
  • An app called Krishna, for example, has already advised killing unbelievers and supporting India's ruling party.
    Scott Shapiro, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
  • To have reservations about something that is treated as sacrosanct is to be an unbeliever, or worse, a heretic, and thus someone to be cast out.
    Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
Definition of unbeliever
Noun
  • In 1935, Pope Pius XI openly supported the invasion of Ethiopia as a crusade against a country of heretics, schismatics, pagans, and infidels.
    Ian Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
  • View Photos The 940 series, sedan and wagons, will give Volvo a fresh set of foils with which to fend off the growing number of infidels storming the barricades of the $30,000-sedan empire.
    William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 27 June 2023
Definition of infidel
Noun
  • Some in the family—which is very loyal to Hezbollah—said Hamoudi seemed almost an atheist.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Many of them reported regularly reading online materials and watching YouTube videos of other atheists and skeptics.
    Darren E. Sherkat, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2015
Definition of atheist
Noun
  • Church officials decided to recognize Dec. 25 as his birthday, probably to coincide with the date of pagan festivals in an attempt to get pagans to accept Christianity as the official religion.
    Atlanta Life, ajc, 10 Nov. 2017
  • While plague stalks the land, paranoid peasants swap cautionary folk tales about evil spirits, pagans, Jews and other outsiders.
    Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2017
Definition of pagan
Noun
  • To have a follower recount a feat of superhuman strength, or even an apparition, is hard for a layperson to fathom but has the advantage of having happened in the past and out of the view of nonbelievers.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • For the believers and nonbelievers, the Pentagon answered whether UFOs or aliens have ever visited Earth, saying there is no evidence.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of nonbeliever
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