faithed

English

Etymology

faith +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feɪθd/, /feɪθt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪθd

Adjective

faithed (comparative more faithed, superlative most faithed)

1. (obsolete) Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 2, scene 1:

     Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think, / If I would stand against thee, would the reposal / Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee / Make thy words faithed?

2. Having faith of a specified quality or type.
   • 1604, Hugh Broughton Hugh Broughton, An aduertisement of corruption in our handling of religion To the Kings Majestie‎^[1], Of Malachie:

     ...Ezra cometh from Babel to reforme matters: as mariages with infideles: and such, fit for be∣ginning a new comon weale: So Malachy speaketh nothing of the Temple, but of maintenance for the Levites, & of strange faithed wiues, and all, for matters fit for a new be∣ginning comon weale...

   • 2012 September 16, londonranger, “Very Happy Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur”, in QPR Report Message Board‎^[2], retrieved 2016-12-02:

     to those Jewish faithed brethren QPR fans of which Mike and myself are two, for the year, and myself apologise^[sic] to anyone whom I have hurt (sinned) during the past year.

   • 2014 December 12, givitawayy, “How do I (24m)tell my strong faithed wife (23f) that I am agnostic?”, in Reddit‎^[3], retrieved 2016-12-02:
   • 2015 September 6, Dan Rather, “Jimmy Carter is a man the founding fathers would recognize”, in Mashable‎^[4], retrieved 2016-12-02:

     As a Texan I knew the smell well. It was an aroma not all that unexpected of Southern "Good Ole' Boys", but it didn't square with reports that Carter was a deep-faithed Southern Baptist who taught Sunday School and was a tee-totaler.

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