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belief (iou)



belief noun. ME.

Trust, confidence; faith. (Foll. by in, of a person or thing.) ME.
Tennyson Beyond mine old belief in womanhood. A. J. P. Taylor He had no belief in the administrative capacity of the Unionists.
b. spec. Trust in God; religious faith; acceptance of any received theology (passing into sense 2). ME.
Carlyle That war of the Puritans..the war of Belief against Unbelief. C. P. Snow He went to church out of propriety more than belief.
Mental acceptance of a statement, fact, doctrine, thing, etc., as true or existing. (Foll. by in a thing, in or of a statement etc., that something is the case.) ME.
beyond belief: see BEYOND preposition 6. to the best of one's belief: see BEST adjective etc.
P. Sidney My only defence shal be beleefe of nothing. Oxford English Dictionary His statements are unworthy of belief. Arnold Bennett He had been brought up in the belief that the Dragon was a place of sin. R. D. Laing Many people are prepared to have faith in the sense of scientifically indefensible belief in an untested hypothesis.
The thing believed; a proposition or set of propositions held to be true; a religion; an opinion or persuasion. ME.
M. W. Montagu It is my belief you will not be at all the richer. J. Galsworthy If he had a political belief, it was a tax on wheat. C. S. Forester Some of his beliefs and convictions had been almost shaken lately.
the Belief, one's Belief, the Apostles' Creed. arch. ME.