Faith

/feɪθ/ · noun

Meaning

A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence..

Definitions by Sense

1. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
2. A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
3. (metonymic) A religious or spiritual belief system.
4. An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
5. (obsolete) Credibility or truth.
6. (archaic) Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”).
7. (obsolete) Ellipsis of by my faith.

Example Sentences

The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.

I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.

Have faith in him, buddy.

You need to have faith in yourself, that you can overcome your shortcomings and become a good person.

For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves. That is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again.

[…]with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject.

I have faith that my prayers will be answered.

I have faith in the healing power of crystals.

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Word Forms

• faiths
• feith
• feithe
• fayth
• faythe
• faithe

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