faithful
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]faithful (comparative more faithful, superlative most faithful)
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else.
- Having faith.
- 2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion, page 162:
- The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- My servant is very faithful.
- Consistent with reality.
- I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.
- 1976, The Missouri Breaks:
- She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful.
- (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
- (ring theory, of a module) Whose annihilator is zero.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause
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having faith
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reliable; worthy of trust
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consistent with reality
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See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]faithful (plural faithfuls)
- (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
- The faithful pray five times a day.
- 1984, 2:11:25 from the start, in Dune[1] (Science Fiction), spoken by Paul Atreides, →OCLC:
- Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
- 2009 September 30, Bruce DeMara, “Shaw's comedy gets teeth”, in Toronto Star[2]:
- Earlier this year, as the recession put a damper on ticket sales, Maxwell said the easy route would have been to go for the tried-and-true old faithfuls.
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