a. Obs. Forms: α. 4–5 unbileveful, vnbileueful. β. 4–5 vnbelefful, vnbileefful(l, vnbyleeful. [UN-1 7, or f. prec. + -FUL.]
1. Unbelieving; wanting in belief. Also absol.
α. c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 149. He þat is unbileveful to be sone, shal not se þe blis of hevene. Ibid. (1388), Deut. i. 26. Ȝe weren vnbileueful to the word of oure Lord God.
β. c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 45. Who euere of freris bi inspiracioun of god wilen goon among sarasyns & oþere vnbelefful. Ibid. (1382), Acts xxvi. 19. I was not vnbileefful to heuenly visioun.
c. 1430–40. R. Gloucester’s Chron. (Rolls), 4920 + 20. To byleue [= remain] þere Among mys bylyuede [MS. ε vnbelefful] men.
2. Incredible. rare–1.
1388. Wyclif, Judg. xx. 5. Thei bitraueliden my wijf with vnbileueful woodnesse of letcherie.
Hence † Unbelieffulness. Obs.–1
1382. Wyclif, Mark ix. 23. Lord, I bileue; help thou myn vnbileuefulnesse.
