Found 3 items, similar to belief.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: belief
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: belief
belief
n 1: any cognitive content held as true [ant:
unbelief]
2: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed;
“his
impression of her was favorable”;
“what are your feelings
about the crisis?”;
“it strengthened my belief in his
sincerity”;
“I had a feeling that she was lying” [syn:
impression,
feeling,
notion,
opinion]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Belief
Belief
\Be*lief"\, n. [OE. bileafe, bileve; cf. AS. gele['a]fa.
See
Believe.]
1. 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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Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest
suspicion to the fullest assurance. --Reid.
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2. (Theol.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
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No man can attain [to] belief by the bare
contemplation of heaven and earth. --Hooker.
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3. The thing believed; the object of belief.
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Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of
fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men. --Bacon.
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4. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of
any class of views; doctrine; creed.
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In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief
was subject upon its first promulgation. --Hooker.
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Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an
intuitive truth; an intuition. --Sir W. Hamilton.
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Syn: Credence; trust; reliance; assurance; opinion.
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