faith

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
2. (countable, uncountable) A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
3. (countable, uncountable) A religious or spiritual belief system.
4. (countable, uncountable) An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Credibility or truth.

Adv

Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”).

Intj

Ellipsis of by my faith.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/feɪθ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: feith

Cognate with Old English: ġelēafa

In summary

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 recharacterisation of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.

Synonyms

belief

trust

confidence

religion

creed

reliance

doctrine

conviction

credence

attitude

credit

fidelity

loyalty

faithfulness

dependence

hope

devotion

religious belief

opinion

view

tenet

persuasion

honor

organized religion

promise

assurance

godliness

thought

💭

denomination

allegiance

ideology

credo

position

propriety

regard

respect

righteousness

senses

strength

supposition

theism

theology

trustfulness

truth

will-power

worship

ethnic minority

Heliogabalus

prevue

reason for

Sentences

According to these verses , they are unbelievers ; because true faith requires obedience .