faith

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English

Alternative forms

• feith, feithe, fayth, faythe, faithe (obsolete)

Etymology

12th century, from Middle English feith, from Old French feid, from Latin fidēs (“faith, belief, trust”) (whence also English fidelity), from fīdō (“trust, confide in”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (whence also English bide).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /feɪθ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪθ

Noun

Wikipedia ^enfaith (countable and uncountable; plural faiths)

1. A feeling, conviction or belief that something is true, real, or will happen.

   Have faith that the criminal justice system will avenge the murder.

2. An obligation of loyalty or fidelity.
3. The observance of such an obligation.

   He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.

4. (countable) A religious belief system.

   The Christian faith has been spread by proselytizing.

5. (Christianity) Belief and trust in the Christian God's promises revealed through Christ in the New Testament.

   Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld. (Hebrews 11:1 NWT)

6. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal.

   I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.

7. Mental acceptance of and confidence in a claim as truth without evidence supporting the claim (e.g. a superstition or religion) or disregarding all evidence to the contrary (e.g. a delusion).

   I have faith in the healing power of crystals.

   I have faith that my prayers will be answered.

Synonyms

• (knowing, without direct observation, based on indirect evidence and experience, that something is true, real, or will happen): belief, confidence, trust, conviction
• (system of religious belief): religion

Derived terms

• faithful
• faithing
• faithfulness
• faithfully
• faithless
• in faith
• faith-healer

Related terms

• affidavit
• bide
• fidelity

Translations

Translations

Albanian: besim, besë (sq) f. Arabic: إيمان (ar) ('iimaan) m., معتقد (ar) (mu`taqad) m. Aramaic: ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ Bosnian: vjera (bs) f. Bulgarian: вяра (bg) (vjára) f. Cherokee: ᎪᎯᏳᏗ (chr) (gohiyudi) Chinese: Mandarin: 信念 (cmn) (xìnniàn), 信心 (cmn) (xìnxīn), 信教 (cmn) (xìnjiào), 信義 (cmn), 信义 (cmn) (xìnyì), 信賴 (cmn), 信赖 (cmn) (xìnlài) Croatian: vjera (hr) f. Czech: víra (cs) f. Danish: tro (da) Dutch: vertrouwen (nl) n., geloof (nl) n., Esperanto: fido (eo) Finnish: usko (fi) French: foi (fr) f. German: Glaube (de) m. Greek: πίστη (el) (písti) Italian: fede (it) f. Japanese: 信頼 (しんらい, shinrai, trust), 信奉 (しんぽう, shinpō), 信仰 (ja) (しんこう, shinkō), 信念 (ja) (しんねん, shinnen), 信教 (ja) (しんきょう, shinkyō), 信義 (ja) (しんぎ), 信義 (ja) (しんぎ, shingi) Kazakh: сенім (kk) (senim) Khmer: សទ្ធា (km) (sat thea)

Korean: 믿음 (mideum) Latin: fides (la) f. Maltese: fidi (mt) Maori: whakapono (mi) Polish: wiara (pl) f. Portuguese: fé (pt) f. Romanian: credință (ro) f. Russian: вера (ru) (véra) f. Sanskrit: श्रद्धा (sa) (śraddhā) f. Saterland Frisian: Gloowe Scots: Gaelic creideamh m., creideas m. Serbian: Cyrillic: вера f. Roman: vera f. Slovak: viera (sk) f. Spanish: fe (es) f. Swahili: imani (sw) Swedish: tro (sv) Tagalog: pananampalataya (tl), paniniwala (tl) Telugu: నమ్మకము (te) (nammakamu), విశ్వాసము (te) (viswaasamu) West Frisian: leauwe (fy) Zulu: ithemba (zu)

External links

• faith in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• faith in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: church · paper · object · #606: faith · gentleman · persons · wrote

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