Prince Edward struck his breast and swore, that though all his friends forsook him, yet he would enter Ptolemais, though only with Fowin, his horsekeeper. By which speech he incensed the English to go on with him.—Fuller, Holy War, b. iv. c. 28.
Incivility. See ‘Civil.’
By this means infinite numbers of souls may be brought from their idolatry, bloody sacrifices, ignorance, and incivility, to the worshipping of the true God.—Sir W. Raleigh, Of the Voyage for Guiana.
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| Incredulity. |
In Low Latin, and in ages of a blind unintelligent faith, ‘credulitas’ came to be regarded as equivalent to ‘fides,’ and ‘credulity’ to ‘faith.’ The two latter, with their negatives, ‘incredulity’ and ‘unbelief,’ have been usefully desynonymized in our later English; but the quotations which follow will show that this was not always the case.
For we also were sometime unwise, incredulous, erring, serving divers lusts and voluptuousnesses.—Tit. iii. 3. Rhemish Version.
And we see that they could not enter in because of incredulity.—Heb. iii. 19. The same version.
But let us take heed; as God hates a lie, so He hates incredulity, an obstinate, a foolish, and pertinacious understanding.—Bishop Taylor, Sermon at the Funeral of the Lord Primate.
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| Indifference, | |
| Indifferently. |
It is a striking testimony of the low general average which we assume common to most things, that a thing which does not differ from others, is therefore qualified as poor; a sentence of depreciation is pronounced upon it when it is declared to be ‘indifferent.’ When in Greek διαφέρειν means ‘præstare,’ and τὰ διαφέροντα ‘præstantiora,’ we have exactly the same feeling embodying itself at the other end. But this use of these words is modern. ‘Indifferent’ was impartial once, not making differences where none really were.