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faith

[ ˈfāth]

faith

noun

[ˈfāth]

plural faiths\ ˈfāths , sometimes ˈfāt͟hz \

Definition of faith

(Entry 1 of 2)

1a : allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty
//lost faith in the company's president

b(1) : fidelity to one's promises

(2) : sincerity of intentions
//acted in good faith

2a(1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God

(2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion

b(1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof
//clinging to the faith that her missing son would one day return

(2) : complete trust

3 : something that is believed especially with strong conviction
especially : a system of religious beliefs
//the Protestant faith

on faith

: without question
//took everything he said on faith

faith

verb

[ˈfāth]

faithed; faithing; faiths

Definition of faith (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

archaic

: believe, trust

Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty

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Synonyms: Antonyms:noun

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Noun

belief, faith, credence, credit mean assent to the truth of something offered for acceptance. belief may or may not imply certitude in the believer.
// my belief that I had caught all the errors faith almost always implies certitude even where there is no evidence or proof.
// an unshakable faith in God credence suggests intellectual assent without implying anything about grounds for assent.
// a theory now given credence by scientists credit may imply assent on grounds other than direct proof.
// gave full credit to the statement of a reputable witness

Recent Examples on the Web

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
//Claypool appreciated the faith offensive coordinator Chip Long showed in calling his number after the receiver dropped a short pass on the first play of the drive.
— Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, "Notre Dame WR Chase Claypool 'needs the ball more,' says ACC Network analyst Eric Mac Lain," 8 Nov. 2019
//Kaylen LeBaron is a descendant of a family that left Utah in the 1920s to form a remote settlement in Mexico, in order to practice a fundamentalist strain of the Mormon faith that included polygamy.
— Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, "LeBaron family, with nine members killed in Mexico massacre, has Anchorage ties," 7 Nov. 2019
//The midfielder has worked his way back into Newcastle's starting lineup, and is thoroughly rewarding the faith shown in him.
— SI.com, "90min's Premier League Team of the Week - Matchday 11," 4 Nov. 2019
//The 95-year-old was teaching Sunday school at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, centered around the concept of life after death in the Christian faith.
— Danielle Garrand, CBS News, "Jimmy Carter says he is "at ease with death" 2 weeks after being hospitalized," 3 Nov. 2019
//Her association with the belief that God wants followers to find wealth and health — commonly called the prosperity gospel — is highly unorthodox in the faith and considered heretical by many.
— New York Times, "Paula White, Newest White House Aide, Is a Uniquely Trumpian Pastor," 2 Nov. 2019
//Mission Dolores is a testament to the faith that sustained the Spanish colonists.
— Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, "Mission Dolores’ dark legacy for Indians: From salvation to subjugation and death," 1 Nov. 2019
//The faith instructs its members to follow a strict health code that bans smoking, recreational marijuana use and alcohol.
— Brady Mccombs, chicagotribune.com, "Utah’s vaping rate 6 times higher than national average," 30 Oct. 2019
//Everything will be done to punish the perpetrators and protect our compatriots of the Muslim faith.
— Fox News, "Man in his 80s arrested in connection with France mosque attack," 29 Oct. 2019

First Known Use of faith

Noun

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for faith

Noun

Middle English feith, fei, borrowed from Anglo-French feit, feid, fei, going back to Latin fidēs "trust, guarantee, proof, sincerity, loyalty, belief," going back to *bhid-ēi-, noun derivative from zero-grade of an Indo-European verbal base *bhei̯dh- "entrust, trust," whence Latin fīdere "to trust (in), have confidence (in)," fīdus "faithful," Greek peíthesthai "to obey, comply with, believe," peíthein "to persuade, prevail upon," Albanian be "oath," and probably Old Church Slavic běždǫ, běditi "to compel, constrain," běda "distress, need"

Note: The English word is an early loan from medieval French, first attested in a homily fragment from the 12th century (see feþ in Dictionary of Old English); it appears to preserve the final interdental fricative generally lost in early Old French—a loss reflected in the more common Anglo-French form fei (also loaned into Middle English—see fay entry 2). Indo-European *bhei̯dh- is also usually claimed to be the source of Germanic *bīðan- "to wait" (see bide).

Verb

verbal derivative of faith entry 1

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