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unbeliever

noun

  1. person who doesn't believe in religion/gods
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From un- + believer, perhaps a corruption of earlier wanbeliever (“unbeliever”).

  1. One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe people who do not believe in the same deity or deities as themselves).

    `Well, I suppose that we must try it,' I said; and the others assented in their various ways - Leo, as though it were the best joke in the world; Job, in respectful disgust; and Mahomed, with an invocation to the Prophet, and a comprehensive curse upon all unbelievers and their ways of thought and travel.

    I tried to persuade some of the men to come and save you, but they would not do it, saying: ‘Let the unbelievers kill one another if they wish. It is none of our affair, and if we go and interfere with Ali-ben-Ahmed’s plans we shall only stir up a fight with our own people.’