Word Meanings - WAVERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.

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• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• FAITH
  fr. L. fides; akin to fidere to trust, Gr. th is perhaps due to the influence of such words as truth, health, wealth. See Bid, Bide, and 1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• OPINIONIST
  One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.
• FAITHED
  Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. "Make thy words faithed." Shak.
• UNSETTLE
  To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
• OPINIONABLE
  Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.
• OPINIONATED
  Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.
• OPINIONATIST
  An opinionist.
• UNSETTLEMENT
  The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.
• FAITHFUL
  1. Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. You are not faithful, sir. B. Jonson. 2. Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements. The faithful God,
• OPINION
  The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. To be of opinion, to think; to judge. -- To hold opinion with, to agree
• OPINIONED
  Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• OPINIONATELY
  Conceitedly. Feltham.
• OPINIONATIVE
  1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. 2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. "Things both opinionative and practical." Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n.
• UNSETTLEDNESS
  The quality or state of being unsettled.
• UNFAITH
  Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• SELF-OPINION
  Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.
• MISFAITH
  Want of faith; distrust. " born of your misfaith." Tennyson.
• PREOPINION
  Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.
• SELF-OPINIONED
  Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.
• DISOPINION
  Want or difference of belief; disbelief. Bp. Reynolds.
• MISOPINION
  Wrong opinion.