Dictionary Entry

faithless

Part of SpeechadjectiveUsed In Literature ↓

Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.

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Common Phrases

. faithlesswife faithlesslover faithlesshusband faithlessone faithlessman faithless

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Poetry examples for “faithless”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Ambition sigh'd: she found it vain to trust
The faithless column, and the crumbling bust: 20
Huge moles, whose shadow stretch'd from shore to shore,

Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust
The faithless column and the crumbling bust:
Huge moles, whose shadow stretched from shore to shore,

In "The Nymph complaining for the Death of
her Fawn," the feiwn, left by a faithless lover,
is described as finding all its pleasure in the

Not trust Thy word:
I faithless slumberer in Gethsemane,
Blinded and rash; who instantly

No charmËd herbs of any harlot scathed thee,
No faithless witch in Thessal waters bathed thee. 40
No sickness harmed thee (far be that away!),

On tell-tales' necks thou seest the link-knit chains,
The filthy prison faithless breasts restrains.
Water in waters, and fruit, flying touch,

Are in her face so kindly writ
The faithless, seeing her, conceive
Not only heaven, but hope of it;

'Thou canst not be
Faithful to God, and faithless unto me!'
Ah, prophet kind!

And tell the lass, whose flower is wox a weed,
And faultless faith is turn'd to faithless fear,
That she the truest shepheard's heart made bleed

[Greek: Tis d' ara pistis apistò?
(What faith, then, in the faithless?)]