Faith
[feɪθ] or [feθ]
Definition
(noun.) loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; 'keep the faith'; 'they broke faith with their investors'.
(noun.) complete confidence in a person or plan etc; 'he cherished the faith of a good woman'; 'the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust'.
Checker: Muriel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
(n.) The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.
(n.) The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.
(n.) The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.
(n.) That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.
(n.) Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.
(n.) Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.
(n.) Credibility or truth.
(interj.) By my faith; in truth; verily.
Checker: Max
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Belief (that prompts to action), credence, credit, trust, assurance, confidence, dependence, reliance.[2]. Creed, persuasion, tenets, dogmas, doctrines, religion, system of religion.[3]. Fidelity, faithfulness, truthfulness, truth, constancy, loyalty.[4]. Engagement, promise, word of honor.
interj. [Colloquial.] Verily, in truth, by my faith, upon my word.
Editor: Simon
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See _BECOMING]
Typed by Helga
Definition
n. trust or confidence in any person: belief in the statement of another: belief in the truth of revealed religion: confidence and trust in God: the living reception by the heart of the truth as it is in Christ: that which is believed: any system of religious belief esp. the religion one considers true—'the faith;' fidelity to promises: honesty: word or honour pledged.—adjs. Faithed (Shak.) credited; Faith′ful full of faith believing: firm in adherence to promises duty allegiance &c.: loyal: conformable to truth: worthy of belief: true.—adv. Faith′fully sincerely truthfully exactly.—ns. Faith′fulness; Faith′-heal′ing a system of belief based on James v. 14 that sickness may be treated without any medical advice or appliances if the prayer of Christians be accompanied in the sufferer by true faith.—adj. Faith′less without faith or belief: not believing esp. in God or Christianity: not adhering to promises allegiance or duty: delusive.—adv. Faith′lessly.—ns. Faith′lessness; Faith′worthiness trustworthiness.—adj. Faith′worthy worthy of faith or belief.—Bad faith treachery.—Father of the faithful Abraham: the caliph.—In good faith with sincerity.—The Faithful believers.
Edited by Helen
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.
Typist: Stephanie
Unserious Contents or Definition
A mental accomplishment whereby an ear-ache becomes a Symphony Concert, a broken finger a diamond ring and a 'touch' an invitation to dine.
Checker: Sigmund
Examples
- You have no faith in me? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He had the faith of the one, the doubt of the other, and, drawn strongly either way by these opposing forces, paused irresolutely between the two. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Real life is beyond his control and influence because real life is largely agitated by impulses and habits, unconscious needs, faith, hope and desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No one could remember it without gaining faith in the mystery, without the soul's warming with new, deep life-truSt. And Gerald! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I didn't have much faith that it would work, expecting that I might possibly hear a word or so that would give hope of a future for the idea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There was a real loss of faith after 1859. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By my faith, said the Knight, closing his visor, I think thou be'st in the right on't. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- By my faith, said Cedric, I should know that voice! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Faith, you've got such a nice good-natured face and way widg you, that I'm sure we'll agree; and that you'll be an addition to our family anyway. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Faith, I was never afeard of nothing except Boney, or I shouldn't ha' been the soldier I was. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They are both written in good faith, I have no doubt, and without any collusion. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which compelled our respect. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In spite of his Punic faith? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You ought to suffer; but you have eaten with me, and I have given you my faith, which must not be broken. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- As history goes on the Greeks became more religious and superstitious as the faiths of the conquered welled up from below. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Grandfer Cantle's watch had numbered many followers in years gone by, but since he had grown older faiths were shaken. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If they did not make very many converts, at least they made sceptics among the adherents of the older faiths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Wise in his daily work was he: To fruits of diligence, And not to faiths or polity, He plied his utmost sense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Patricia