BELIEF
\bɪlˈiːf], \bɪlˈiːf], \b_ɪ_l_ˈiː_f]\
Definitions of BELIEF
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
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A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
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The thing believed; the object of belief.
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A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
By Oddity Software
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Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
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A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
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The thing believed; the object of belief.
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A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
By Noah Webster.
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A collective expression for all behavior patterns acquired and socially transmitted through symbols. Culture includes customs, traditions, and language.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A state or habit of mind in which one accepts as true something stated, without personal knowledge; trust; the religious doctrines considered true by any body of people; creed.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Acceptance of something as true; trust; conviction; assurance.
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That which is believed; theory; opinion; creed.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A persuasion of the truth of anything; faith or persuasion in regard to religious truth; the thing believed; creed.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. An assent of mind to the truth;—the thing believed; a tenet, or body of tenets;—a creed;—confidence; reliance.
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Credit given to something which we know not of ourselves; the theological virtue of faith, or firm confidence of the truths of religion; religion, the body of tenets held; persuasion, opinion; the thing believed; creed, a form containing the articles of faith.
By Thomas Sheridan
