Both Uses of
infidel
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "We might start at five o'clock and be in time, but the delay may cause your friend to pass an uneasy night, and therefore we had better go with all speed to extricate him from the hands of the infidels.†
Chpt 37-38
- Dear Valentine, you are a perfect angel, and I am sure I do not know what I—sabring right and left among the Bedouins—can have done to merit your being revealed to me, unless, indeed, heaven took into consideration the fact that the victims of my sword were infidels.†
Chpt 57-58 *
Definition:
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(infidel) a negative term describing someone as not believing in the "right" religion or god