misbelieving

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsbɪˈliːvɪŋ/

Etymology 1

From misbelieve +‎ -ing.

Verb

misbelieving

1. present participle and gerund of misbelieve

Etymology 2

From Middle English misbilevinge, equivalent to misbelieve +‎ -ing.

Noun

misbelieving (plural misbelievings)

1. The refusal to believe something; disbelief, or an instance of this.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , II.12:

     I know a man of authority, brought up in letters, who confessed unto me, that he was reclaimed from out the errours of mis-beleeving by the Arguments of Sebond.