faith
nounEtymology
From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief. * Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.
Definitions
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from…
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
- The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.
- I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
- Have faith in him, buddy.
A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence,…
A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
- I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
- I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
A religious or spiritual belief system.
- The Christian faith.
- We seek justice for the Indo-European Folk Faith; what's wrong in our literature for that?
- Gradually I realized that I needed a faith to rely on.
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An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
- He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.
Credibility or truth.
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece the faith of the foregoing […] narrative
Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”).
- 'Faith, friend,' he says, 'that was a nasty fall for a fellow that has supped weel. Where might your road be gaun to?'
Ellipsis of by my faith.
A female given name from English.
- "Now, I was called Faith after the cardinal virtue; and I like my name, though many people would think it too Puritan; that was according to our gentle mother's pious desire.
- There was something to be said for all those religiously influenced names – Patience, Grace, Chastity, Faith. Better to be named for a virtue than to be landed with a forgettable name like 'Martin'.
A surname, also used as a stage name.
A place in the United States
A place in the United States:
The neighborhood
- synonymsystem of religious belief
- neighboraffidavit
- neighborbide
- neighborfidelity
- neighborFay
- neighborHope
- neighborCharity
Derived
act of faith, antifaith, article of faith, Attic faith, bad faith, blind faith, by my faith, cupboard faith, faith and begorra, faith-based, faithbreach, faithbreaker, faith can move mountains, faith-cure, faithectomy, faithed, faitheism, faitheist, faithful, faithfully, faithfulness, faithhead, faith-healer, faith healer, faith healing, faithing, faithism, faithist, faithless, faith-lift, faithly, faith supper, faith will move mountains, faithwise, faithworthy, faithy, full faith and credit, good faith, i' faith, in faith · +20 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at faith. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at faith. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at faith
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA