Belief
[bɪ'liːf] or [bɪ'lif]
Definition
(n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.
(n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Credence, credit, confidence, trust, reliance, persuasion, FAITH.[2]. Doctrine, tenet, dogma, opinion, creed, article of faith, profession of faith.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Assent, faith, trust, credence, avowal, assurance, admission, conviction,opinion, permission, creed, reliance, concession, confidence
ANT:Dissent, unbelief, distrust, denial, misgiving, disavowal, rejection, disbelief
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Examples
- Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If we proceed along the old path, my belief, I said, is that we shall find the answer. Plato. The Republic.
- Whatever he might have heard against meought he not to have suspended his belief? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- With all this, I held firm, notwithstanding, to my belief in Miss Rachel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Regardless of the foolish belief of the peoples of the outer world, or of Holy Thern, or ebon First Born, I am not dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As a general belief it is still more recent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The effect, then, of belief is to raise up a simple idea to an equality with our impressions, and bestow on it a like influence on the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And the police haven't, nor will they, to the best of my belief. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's my belief you hate the sight of the very river. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was seen lighting his cigar with one, to the horror of Captain Dobbin, who, it is my belief, would have given a bank-note for the document. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I have heard that the sight of the dead has confirmed materialists in their belief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She had as firm a belief in the sweetness and propriety of his manners as she could possibly have had if he had been Lord Chamberlain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Abu Bekr was a man without doubts, his beliefs cut down to acts cleanly as a sharp knife cuts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I very nearly acquired the jargon at Silverton's age, and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- With respect to all of them, it set up a test: Where are the real objects from which these ideas and beliefs are received? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An interest in discovery took the place of an interest in systematizing and proving received beliefs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was a world of lost or faded beliefs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The required beliefs cannot be hammered in; the needed attitudes cannot be plastered on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They wanted to form their beliefs about it at first hand, instead of through tradition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The old beliefs, that had lasted so long, seemed better than the new. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Life covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories and defeats, recreations and occupations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- William James might also be cited for his defense of those beliefs that are beyond the realm of proof. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Try to judge the great beliefs that have swayed mankind by their inner logic or their empirical solidity and you stand forever, a dull pedant, apart from the interests of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The customs and beliefs of different communities were found to diverge sharply from one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They tend to act with the same controlling ideas, beliefs, and intentions, given similar circumstances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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