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单词 faith
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faithn.int.

Brit. /feɪθ/, U.S. /feɪθ/
Forms:

α. early Middle English feið, Middle English faiþ, Middle English faiþe, Middle English fayþ, Middle English feiȝþ, Middle English feiȝth, Middle English feiȝthe, Middle English feiþ, Middle English feiþe, Middle English feþ, Middle English feyþ, Middle English ffayth, Middle English ffeith, Middle English ffeyþ, Middle English ffeyth, Middle English–1600s faithe, Middle English–1600s fayth, Middle English–1600s faythe, Middle English–1600s feith, Middle English–1600s feithe, Middle English–1600s feyth, Middle English–1600s feythe, Middle English– faith, late Middle English fath, 1500s faieth, 1500s fayeth, 1500s feathe, 1500s fethe, 1500s (1800s Irish English (Wexford)) fythe, 1600s ffaith, 1600s (1800s in Phrases 1a(b)) feth, 1800s faaighe (Irish English (Wexford)), 1800s faighe (Irish English (Wexford)); also Scottish pre-1700 fath, pre-1700 fathe, pre-1700 1800s– feth (now also Irish English (northern)).

β. Middle English fait, Middle English fayt, Middle English feiȝt, Middle English feyght, Middle English feyghte, Middle English feyt, 1500s faight; also Scottish pre-1700 facht, pre-1700 faicht, pre-1700 faitht, pre-1700 fatht, pre-1700 faycht, pre-1700 faytht, 1800s fait.

See also fay n.1
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French feit.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French feid, feit, fait (also Anglo-Norman and Middle French foit , Anglo-Norman and Old French fei , Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French foi : see fay n.1) religious faith (late 11th cent.), word of honour (c1100), fidelity, loyalty, allegiance (all late 12th cent.), (of an argument) credibility (mid 13th cent.), trust (second half of the 13th cent.), reliability (late 13th cent. or earlier), (with definite article) the Christian religion (a1417) < classical Latin fidēs trust, guarantee, promise, assurance, fulfilment of a promise, proof, confirmation, authoritativeness, credit, good name, financial credit, honesty, honour, loyalty, allegiance, credibility, trustworthiness, reliability, belief, conviction, confidence, range or possibility of belief, in post-classical Latin also belief in the Christian religion, Christian doctrine (Vulgate), the Christian religion (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), profession of the Christian religion (4th cent.) < the base of fīdere to trust < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek πείθεσθαι to be persuaded, to obey, and probably bide v., and also (with different ablaut grade) Gothic baidjan to compel, exercise a moral constraint (see bad adj., n.2, and adv.), Old Church Slavonic běda necessity, distress, Lithuanian bėda misfortune, trouble, Albanian be oath. Compare Old Occitan fe (c1100), Catalan fe (c1200), Spanish fe (12th cent., also †he (14th cent.)), Portuguese (12th cent.), Italian fede (mid 13th cent.). Compare also Welsh ffydd (13th cent as fit ; < Latin). Compare fay n.1Phonology. The dental fricative in English apparently reflects the pronunciation of the final consonant in the earliest stages of Anglo-Norman and Old French (before its deletion, probably in the 11th cent.), this would make faith the only borrowing from Anglo-Norman to preserve this feature in a monosyllabic word (compare the parallel borrowing fay n.1, without it); it may have been preserved under the influence of the semantically related truth n. and troth n. (For preservation of the early French final dental in suffixes, compare e.g. dainteth n. and the β. forms at plenty n., adj., and adv.) It has also been suggested that the final dental in English faith is -th suffix1 (i.e. showing suffixation of fei fay n.1 within English), but this rarely combines with nouns and not normally with first elements of non-Germanic origin. Models for religious senses. Ancient Greek πίστις , which is ultimately related to classical Latin fidēs and is generally translated by the Latin word in the New Testament, has a similar range of senses: trust, confidence, assurance, trustworthiness, honesty, credit, religious belief (in Hellenistic Greek also specifically denoting the Christian religion), pledge, guarantee, argument, proof. With sense A. 6 compare Anglo-Norman la commune fei the Catholic faith, lit. ‘the common faith’ (first half of the 12th cent); post-classical Latin fides catholica (4th cent.). Models for other specific uses. With to give (one's) faith at sense A. 2 compare classical Latin fidem dare . With to give faith at sense A. 4 compare classical Latin fidem dare (2nd cent. a.d. in Apuleius; rare), Anglo-Norman doner fei (a) to put faith (in), to trust (early 14th cent.). With to make (also do) faith at sense A. 3 compare classical Latin fidem facere to give surety, and also Anglo-Norman faire fei to swear loyalty (a1325 or earlier). Earlier synonyms. In Old English, various aspects of ‘faith’ were expressed with trēowþ (see truth n. and compare troth n.); in religious contexts, gelēafa was used instead (see yleve n. and compare belief n.).
A. n.
I. The fulfilment of a trust or promise, and related senses.
1.
a. The quality of fulfilling one's trust or promise; faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty; trustworthiness. Also in to bear faith: to be loyal (to someone). Now rare.Recorded earliest in good faith n. Cf. bad faith n., breach of faith at breach n. 3a.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [noun]
truthOE
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truefastnessa1225
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trueness?c1225
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trueheadc1325
traistnessa1340
truthheada1400
faithfulnessc1400
loyaltyc1400
tristiness1408
trustinessc1450
confiance1490
fealty?1515
surety?c1535
loyalness1592
troth-keeping1605
true-heartedness1608
confidence1642
trustworthiness1662
responsibleness1706
dependence1752
reliability1810
trustihood1823
faithworthiness1828
reliableness1841
dependableness1860
dependability1901
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > be faithful or loyal to [verb (transitive)]
teemc1275
to bear faithc1300
to hold firm (to)a1340
to stick to ——1531
to stick unto ——1531
to stick by ——1533
rely1582
to summer and winter1602
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2853 (MED) Hauelok..dide hem grete oþes swere, þat he sholden him god feyth bere.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2678 Ðat him sal feið wurðful ben boren.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 2049 Thus he..feigneth under guile feith.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6980 Þair faith lasted littel space,..þai..lefte þe lagh of hei drightin.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §929 Man sholde bere hym to his wyf In feith, in trouthe, and in loue.
a1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 632 Wiþ-oute feiþ lawe or mesure She is fals.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxiv. f. xiiiiv To hym we owe to bere faith and trouth, as duke of Acquitayne and pere of Fraunce.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 127 Bearing the badge of faith to prooue them true. View more context for this quotation
1649 J. Evelyn Let. 26 Mar. in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 40 Persons of great faith to his Majesty's cause.
1702 C. Brent Ess. Nature Guilt & Lying ii. 120 He does not forget to make them reflect remorsefully on upon their violations of Military Faith and Honour.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 492 I deliver the whole man to you, from my hand, as we say, into your's, illustrious for victory and faith.
1810 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 137 The efforts we have made to merit their esteem.., would have..secured the unqualified confidence of all other nations in our faith and probity.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. iv. 166 The Governor-General, indignant at his want of faith, declined to receive his agents.
1921 A. M. Royden Sex & Common-sense vi. 128 I advocate that the greatest faith and loyalty should be practised [sc. in marriage].
2008 S. D. White in R. M. Karras et al. Law & Illicit in Medieval Europe 98 Eteocles's mother..persuades him to make an accord with Daire, who in return is to bear faith to him in the future.
b. The duty of fulfilling one's trust; allegiance owed to a superior, fealty; the obligation of a promise or engagement. Also in to make faith: to swear fealty. See also Phrases 2b. in (also at) (a person's) faith: under obligation of fealty (to a person).
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] > of fulfilling one's trust or promise
faitha1325
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2187 Bi ðe feið ic og to king pharaon.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 39 Þe feyth þat þei owen to god.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 333 Sire Eymere of Valence lay at Saynt Jon toun, In his alience with many erle & baroun; Of Scotlond þe best were þan in his feith.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 7541 (MED) And hiȝe and low..Hadde openly in a parlement Made feith to hym and y-don homage.
a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 9969 He toke feith of free and bond.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxv. 538 Vpon the feyth that ye owe to me.
a1500 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 63 The Lorde of þe fee..schall never clame no thyng..bott alonly hys faythe for hys tenementes.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 78 Vntill he were returned unto his fayth.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. i. 2/1 The Lordes..tooke their oathes of faith and allegiance vnto Don Phillip.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 986 Who to save Her countrey from a fierce destroyer, chose Above the faith of wedlock-bands. View more context for this quotation
1736 A. Hill Zara i. i. 5 That Cross, which, from your Infant Years Has been preserv'd, was found upon your Bosom, As if design'd, by Heaven, a Pledge of Faith.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 129 The two princes mutually engaged their faith never to undertake any thing to the prejudice of each other.
1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church II. vii. 12 In his [sc. the priest's] presence they mutually pledged their faith to each other.
1851 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris in Poems (ed. 7) 232 She turn'd, we closed, we kiss'd, swore faith.
1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. vii. 245 To give their faith and obedience to the French monarch.
1930 M. L. Davis Uncle Sam's Attic xi. 105 Their minds were solemn-set to root here and make the place a pledge of faith to all the past.
1987 J. Prager Building Democracy in Ireland i. ii. 28 Parliamentary representatives swore faith and allegiance to the Constitution while only pledging ‘faithfulness’ to the king.
2003 D. Brown Da Vinci Code (2006) xcix. 445 A pledge of faith to one another. A knight's allegiance to uncover the truth and make it known.
2. A pledge, a formal declaration, a solemn promise; esp. in to give (one's) faith. See also Phrases 2b. Now rare and archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > pledge or assurance
wordOE
costOE
earnest1221
fayc1300
certainty1303
wager1306
plighta1325
pledge1371
assurancec1386
undertaking?a1400
faithc1405
surementc1410
to make affiancec1425
earnest pennya1438
warrant1460
trow1515
fidelity1531
stipulation1552
warranty1555
pawn1573
arrha1574
avouchment1574
assumption1590
word of honour1598
avouch1603
assecurance1616
preassurance1635
tower-stamp1642
parole of honour1648
spondence1657
honour1659
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)] > give assurances
assurec1386
avouch1532
to give (one's) faith1558
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 431 Lo here my feith in me shal be no lak.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 2176 As sittyng is to femynyte Of nature nat be vengable, For feith nor oþe, but raþer mercyable.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxiijv Emongest men of warre, faith or othe, syldome is perfourmed.
1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xxviii. f. clxxiiii Jane, here I geue to thee my faythe and truthe..I wyll marrye thee.
1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck ii. iii. sig. E Cease perswasions, I violate no pawnes of faythes, intrude not On private loues.
1663 tr. G. Biondi Penitent Bandito sig. D6v Father, I give you my faith, that I do not, at all, bewail my death.
1721 E. Young Revenge iii. i. 32 O sacred Faith! How dearly I abide thy Violation!
1787 J. Reeves Hist. Eng. Law (ed. 2) I. vii. 406 In common cases..the essoniator gave his faith, that he would produce his principal at another day.
1834 G. R. Gleig Allan Breck (1835) I. xiv. 110 I will not press you to a pledge. I do not now ask you to give your faith to Allan.
1901 Junior Munsey July 687/1 If your highness will give me your faith not to attempt escape, I have no wish to deprive you of your sword.
2011 A. E. Smith Queen by Right 112 I take you as my wife, for better or worse..; and of this I give you my faith.
II. Inducement to belief or trust.
3. Attestation, confirmation, assurance; esp. in to make (also do) faith: to attest; to affirm, confirm; to give surety. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > give assurance or stand surety [verb (intransitive)]
to lay one's life, head, to wed971
to find (take) God, Mahoun, St. Blase, St. George, etc. to borrowa1330
again-behotea1382
to make (also do) faitha1382
pledge1458
to make (also give) warrantisea1535
undertake1548
subscribe1600
underwrite1623
seal1633
underwritea1657
hedge1676
vouch1687
to stand surety (or security)1776
to take warrant on oneself1828
stipulate1829
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [noun]
certaininga1300
faitha1382
certifyinga1387
assuring1530
certification1533
assurance1609
securement1622
certioration1653
ensurance1654
assecurationa1656
insurance1660
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xi. 15 He shal be tormentid with euel, that doth feith [L. fidem facit] for a stranger.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccxxiij/1 Alle made fayth to other that [etc.].
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. G3 The manney folde paines..makethe cleare feithe inoughe, that the greter follie is yowres.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 807 Faith was made to them, that..they should come safe.
1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence xii. 27 An excellent MS. that makes faith in this particular.
1668 M. Casaubon Of Credulity & Incred. (1670) 111 Christ his miracles without further consideration..to make faith or evidence of his Deity.
1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. i. 13 Doctor Oats had made Faith that several of that Cattle were sent down from England to Scotland.
1786 R. Burns Let. 9 July in Wks. (1834) VII. 2 One of the servant girls made faith that she upon a time rashly entered the house.
4. Power to convince; credibility, credit, convincing authority. Obsolete. to give faith: to create credibility.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [noun] > power to convince
faitha1393
force1551
coercion1768
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 852 Anon mi faste I breke On suche wordes as sche seith, That full of trouthe and full of feith Thei ben.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 1520 Forto yive a more feith..In blake clothes thei hem clothe.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. xii. l. 3002 Þe whiche proeues drawen to hemself hir feiþ and hir accorde eueriche [of] hem of oþer.
1596 L. Keymis Relation 2nd Voy. Guiana sig. G2v He reposed himselfe more on the faith of his guides the[n] on his small number of men.
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iii. sig. G Great Titus Livius, great for eloquence, And fayth [1616 faith], amongst vs, in his Historie . View more context for this quotation
a1638 J. Mede Epist. to Estwick in Wks. (1672) iv. 836 S. Jerom is a man of no faith with me.
1708 W. Crouch Sin of Covetousness ix. 81 The best of Records extant in the whole World (and which thro' many Ages and Generations, have gained Faith and Credit) have recogniz'd him to be a very Meek Man.
1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 375 Relying on the Faith of Books.
1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxi. 124 It may not be unnecessary..towards establishing the faith of the foregoing..narrative.
III. Belief, trust, confidence.
5. Belief in and acceptance of the doctrines of a religion, typically involving belief in a god or gods and in the authenticity of divine revelation. Also (Theology): the capacity to spiritually apprehend divine truths, or realities beyond the limits of perception or of logical proof, viewed either as a faculty of the human soul, or as the result of divine illumination.Earlier evidence refers almost exclusively to the Christian religion, divine revelation being viewed as contained either in Holy Scripture or in the teaching of the Church. In this context faith is often considered in relation to justification before God, and contrasted with works. Cf. justifying faith at justifying adj. Compounds.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun]
levec950
beliefc1175
trothc1175
trutha1200
fayc1315
believingc1384
faithc1384
trowa1400
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) James ii. 17 Feith [L. fides], if it haue not werkes, is deed in it silf.
c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 64 Feith is deed with outen werkis.
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 425 Feith is a knowingal vertu—þat is to seie such where wiþ we knowen sum treuþe and is þe knowing of þe same trouþ.
c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 123 That feith..is thilke kinde or spice of knowyng, which a man gendrith and getith into his undirstonding.
1526 W. Tyndale Prol. Moses in Wks. 7 Fayth, is the beleuyng of Gods promises, and a sure trust in the goodnes and truth of God, which fayth iustified Abrah.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 375 Faith..maketh God & man friends.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 271 Faith is a gift of God, which Man can neither give, nor take away.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xviii. 348 Faith..is the Assent to any Proposition..upon the Credit of the Proposer, as coming immediately from God, which we call Revelation.
1744 J. Swift Serm. Trinity 52 Faith is an entire Dependence upon the Truth, the Power, the Justice, and the mercy of God.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 111 Faith, the root whence only can arise The graces of a life that wins the skies.
1835 W. Wordsworth Russ. Fugitive ii. xi, in Yarrow Revisited 132 That monumental grace Of Faith, which doth all passions tame That Reason should control.
1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness iii. 21 Faith..the faculty by which we realize unseen things.
1921 A. Myerson Found. Personality ix. 167 Faith is really a transcendent Hope, renewing the feeling of energy.
1949 H. A. R. Gibb Mohammedanism vii. 113 They [sc. the Mu'tazilite movement] stressed the responsibility of the Believer as against the..emphasis on the sufficiency of faith, irrespective of ‘works’.
1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill i. 4 Did it [sc. the decline of religion] rage beneath the surplice and eat away the roots of faith?
2002 Independent 7 Aug. 14/3 His refusal to ignore modern thought..led to his own crisis of faith.
2011 F. M. Jensen Study of Found. Justif. ix. 90 Faith is the instrument by which we are linked to Christ.
6.
a. A system of religious belief. Frequently with modifying word, as Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun]
churcheOE
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spousea1200
lawa1225
lorea1225
religionc1325
faithc1384
sectc1386
seta1387
leara1400
hirselc1480
professiona1513
congregation1526
communion1553
schism1555
segregation1563
sex1583
hortus conclususa1631
confessiona1641
dispensation1643
sectary1651
churchship1675
cult1679
persuasion1732
denomination1746–7
connection1753
covenant1818
sectarism1821
organized religion1843
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. iii. 26 That he be iust, and iustifyinge him that is of the feith of Jhesu Crist.
c1391 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Huntington) vii. l. 3221* (MED) ‘Which is thi creance and thi feith?’ ‘I am paien,’ that other seith.
c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 378 They gonnen fro the tormentours to reue..The false feith to trowe in god allone.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 11 Men of Grece ben cristene, ȝit þei varien from oure feith.
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) 4062 He is at the Sarezynes faith.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. aij/1 The cristen feyth is..corrobered by the doctours of holy chyrche.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 179/1 The churche..muste..haue all one fayth.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fiij They haue no law written, and are of no faith.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 71 He weares his faith but as the fashion of his hat. View more context for this quotation
1680 C. Blount Great is Diana 29 This was the Heathen Faith; for although they did not own themselves to be made after the Image of God, yet did they in their fond Imaginations make their Gods after the Image of men.
1748 J. P. Stehelin tr. J. Buxtorf in J. A. Eisenmenger Rabinical Lit. (new ed.) II. App. 227 Upon these Articles.., the Religion of Moses and the Faith of the Jews have always stood.
1764 H. Walpole Let. 11 Jan. in Corr. with G. Montagu (1941) II. 117 We Oberon the grand,..Defender of the sylphic faith.
1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. Dissert. 24/2 An open scoffer at the Moslem faith.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 302 Are you willing to renounce the faith of your father?
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 76 The Frank..learned with implicit submission his faith from the mouth of the Roman priest.
1900 R. J. Drummond Apost. Teaching i. 25 He wants a logical explanation of the Christian faith.
1958 L. de Wohl Francis of Assisi xix. 271 Mullahs and imams, priests of the Moslem faith.
2010 Jewish Chron. 8 Oct. 31/1 We do no good for relations between us and other faiths by seeking out bones of contention.
b. the faith (also the Faith): that system of religious belief which is regarded as true and correct; the true religion; spec. (esp. in earlier use) Christianity, or a particular branch of it. Also in extended use denoting non-religious beliefs (cf. sense A. 6d). Cf. defender of the faith at defender n. Phrases.Sometimes without the in early use and in certain fixed phrases, as of faith: part and parcel of the faith. See also contrary to faith at Phrases 4a, Confession of Faith at confession n. 7a.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [noun]
the faithc1384
truthc1384
soundness1583
orthodoxy1630
orthodoxness1644
orthodoxism1645
orthodoxalness1654
orthodoxality1660
symmetricalness1684
society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun]
gospelc950
the WayOE
ChristendomOE
crossc1325
the faithc1384
Christianitya1400
Christenhoodc1443
Christ's professionc1475
Christianism1554
Xtianity1634
Christism1842
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. vi. 10 Sum men..erreden fro the feith, and bisettiden hem with many sorwis.
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 11 (MED) Ioseph..hedde I-turned to þe feyþ fifti with him-seluen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21013 Iacob þe mar..þe land o spaigne in fait he fest.
c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 538 Thre dayes lyued she..And neuere cessed hem the feith to teche.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe i. 122 Þe clerkys examynde hir in þe Articles of þe Feyth.
?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) l. 240 A very pynacle of the fayth.
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aijv The Indians subdued to the fayth.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 3 A manifest falling away from the Faith.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 108 The Gospel conteineth intirely the faith.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. v. 21 For the poor Non-Conformists, by their hot pressing of those Indifferencies..utterly subverting the Faith in the important Points.
a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1774) I. ii. 30 When..the inward light waxes dim, the faith is gone.
1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah I. i. 16 I lost no time in securing the assistance of a Shaykh, and plunged once more into the intricacies of the Faith.
1867 A. P. Forbes Explan. Thirty-nine Articles I. i. 5 The uncompounded nature of God is of faith.
a1884 M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 173 We hear much of a crisis of the faith, of the perilous errors which are abroad in society.
1903 P. W. Joyce Social Hist. Anc. Ireland I. ix. 255 The spread of the faith, and the influence of education, had disenthralled the minds of the higher classes.
1921 Amer. Econ Rev. 11 539 Although he ‘ventures to differ’ from Marx on minor points, Mr Hyndman remains true to the faith.
1949 H. A. R. Gibb Mohammedanism x. 166 In their zeal to restore the primitive purity of the Faith, the Suūdi princes took up arms against their neighbours.
1994 Homiletic & Pastoral Rev. June 79/2 In the hospital, after fifty years as an apostate, he returns to the faith and dies.
2001 Wasafiri Autumn 8/2 [He]..put himself in the hands of certain Fathers of the Society of Jesus, that they might instruct him in the Faith.
c. That which is believed, or required to be believed, on a particular subject; a belief. Also in plural: points of faith, tenets. Cf. article of faith at article n. Phrases 1a. Now somewhat rare.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > [noun] > instance
truth1395
faithc1400
dogma1534
doctrinals1619
tendry1624
faith-mark1652
dogmatism1664
thought mode1939
c1400 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 378 Freris perverten þo right feithe of þo sacrament of þo auter.
c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 123 Othere feithis..mowe be geten bi telling or denouncing of an othere persoone, which may not lie.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvi. sig. e.viii Prechynge..The faythes of holy chyrche.
1565 tr. Origen Homilie of Marye Magdalene sig. D.viiv I do beleue and this is my faith, that God is hable to raise hym vp, yea though he be dead.
1680 W. Rogers 1st Pt. Christian-Quaker iv. 24 Others held forth the Visible Orders, and Written Faiths of a Visible Church to be as a Lanthorn to their Paths.
1694 tr. Lett. Turkish Spy VIII. iv. iv. 253 This is my Faith. That there are Paradises of all Sorts and Degrees prepar'd with exquisite Proportion for the various Kinds of Men.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. xxvi. 128 To enable them to do all things appertaining to life and godliness, and to have a faith in God's power and all-sufficiency.
1794 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg Delights of Wisdom conc. Conjugial Love 36 Many more like objections, which, the instant they were made, they would take away all faith respecting marriages in another life.
a1832 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 632/1 We assumed the common faith of our countrymen respecting the..discipline of the Jew to be true.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World 276 All that has been said..of a besetting God as the final complement of humanity is but a repetition of the Hebrew poets' faith.
1915 Christian Reg. (Boston) 6 May 411/2 The opinions that divide men become nothing to the central faiths which avail to quiet and sustain them.
2002 Los Angeles Oct. 147/1 Somehow, the key faiths of Christianity—that a man was born of a virgin and that he rose from his grave—seem to be vanishing concepts.
d. A system of (non-religious) belief; a set of firmly held principles, ideals, or beliefs; a creed. Usually with modifying word.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > system of belief, creed
beliefc1225
trowa1400
credo?1518
creed1623
faith1659
dogma1791
belief system1870
spirituality1905
whatnotism1915
1659 A. Burgess Script. Directory 128 This is a meer political faith. Many men have no other apprehension about Religion, than the Laws of the Land, in which they live.
1711 J. Swift in Examiner 26 Apr. I look upon the Whigs and Dissenters to be exactly of the same Political Faith.
1793 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 50 Have you read Mr. Fox's letter to the Westminster electors? It is quite the political go at Cambridge, and has converted many souls to the Foxite faith.
1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 44 He is now a..port-bibbing, gout-bemartyred believer in the Tory faith.
1849 Spectator 3 Mar. 198/2 It was the Republicans who were the last to abandon it [sc. the struggle]; it will be yet, I trust, men of the Republican faith who will recommence it.
1878 J. Morley Byron in Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 224 It was perhaps the secret of the black transformation of the social faith of '89 into the worship of the Conqueror of '99.
1935 A. G. B. Fisher Clash of Progress & Security x. 208 Is there any hope of reviving the capitalist faith, or would it be like Julian trying to revive the dead gods of Ancient Greece?
1968 A. Storr Human Aggression vi. 55 The same feature is obvious in Communism, which, although not a religion, is certainly a faith.
2002 P. Willson Peasant Women & Politics Facist Italy ix. 189 She soon became a true believer of the fascist faith.
7.
a. Chiefly with in (formerly also †of). Firm trust or belief in or reliance upon something (e.g. the truth of a statement or doctrine; the ability, goodness, etc., of a person, the efficacy or worth of a thing); confidence; credence.Originally chiefly in religious contexts.See also to give faith to at Phrases 2a.blind faith: see blind adj. Compounds. to pin one's faith on: see pin v.1 4b.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [noun]
ylevec888
levec950
hopec1000
trothc1175
trusta1200
trutha1200
tristc1200
beliefa1225
tresta1300
traistinga1340
traistnessa1340
fiance1340
affiancec1350
affyc1380
tristening1382
credencea1393
faitha1393
levenessc1400
confidencec1430
credulity?a1439
trustingc1450
confiance1490
credit1533
fiduce1582
confidency1606
confidingness1682
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 707 (MED) Thanne is he swiftest to beguile The womman, which..Set upon him feith or credence.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3405 (MED) In drightin was his fayth ai fest.
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 19 Theise ben obseruauncez of..paiens, in which my spirit ne hath no feith.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xv. lxxxvii. sig. Hiijv/1 Ye Germans tornyd them [sc. the Liuones]..to the worshyp & fayth [a1398 BL Add. fey] of one god.
1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Aivv Se that thy fayth be pitched On thy Lord God.
1680 T. Otway Orphan ii. 21 Attempt no farther to delude my Faith.
1697 M. Tindal Ess. Concerning Power of Magistrate ii. iii. 91 A Man may be cured by a Medicine he has no Faith in.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 226 Such a one has great faith in Ward's pills.
1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 124 I never, a' my days, Had meikle faith in spaemen, or their says.
1819 T. Chalmers Serm. preached in Tron Church, Glasgow i. 19 Faith in the constancy of this law is sure to beget, in the mind, a sentiment of independence on the power and will of the Deity.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 168 Without faith in human virtue or in human attachment.
1930 M. Kennedy Fool of Family x. 89 He had no faith in doctors.
1964 P. White Let. 9 Aug. (1994) viii. 264 Sydney people no longer seem to entertain in their houses; I expect they have lost faith in their tin-openers.
1982 J. Benedetti Stanislavski ii. 23 He had lost all faith in himself. He felt dead on stage.
2005 N.Y. Times 11 Sept. iii. 6/5 Traders' faith in that outcome may account for the strength in stocks.
b. Belief based on evidence, testimony, or authority.
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1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Piij An historicall faith. As I do beleue that William Conqueror was kyng of Englande.
a1628 J. Preston Breast-plate of Faith (1630) 15 Faith is..assenting to Truthes for the Authority of the Speaker.
1696 J. Sergeant Method to Sci. iii. viii. 328 Faith or Belief (speaking of Human Faith to which our Circumstances determine our Discourse) is built on Human Testimony or Witnessing Authority.
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. ii. §9 When we derive the Evidence of any Proposition from the Testimony of others, it is called the Evidence of Faith.
1899 Messiah Pulpit 31 Mar. 10 It is faith based on a long intimacy and experience, based on facts and speaking out of facts.
1909 W. W. Costin Introd. Genetic Treatm. Faith-consciousness i. iii. 21 The man of science has faith that his theory will hold even where he cannot experiment, because it seems reasonable, and held good where experimentation was possible.
2005 G. Forster John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus iv. 137 A faith based on evidence is a reasonable faith.
IV. As a collective term.
8. A company of merchants. Obsolete.One of many alleged group names found in late Middle English glossarial sources, but not otherwise substantiated.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > group or body of
faitha1450
merchantyc1503
corporate1849
merchantry1862
a1450 Terms Assoc. in PMLA (1936) 51 604 (MED) A feyth of Marchantes.
B. int.
Emphasize the truth of a statement: really, truly. Also in weakened use as a filler, with little or no semantic force. Cf. in faith at Phrases 1a(b). In later use chiefly Irish English.
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a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. ii. sig. Biv Faith sir, and I nere had more nede of a newe cote.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. H2v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Faith Sir..tis but as the wiser sort doe hold opinion.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxi. 68 Be your teares wet, yes faith, I pray weep not. View more context for this quotation
1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle i. sig. A6v 'Faith, I am very chary of my health.
1659 W. Goodsonn Let. 6 Mar. in T. Birch Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) VII. 628 And faith, he received them at Gottenburgh the 23d of February.
1709 Tatler No. 110. ⁋4 Faith Isaac..thou art a very unaccountable old Fellow.
?1780 Comical Sayings Pady from Cork 7 Faith, he was not such a big fool as die yet.
1791 R. Sadler Wanley Penson II. vii. 315 Well, I'm glad thee beest not hanged, faith!
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge v. 261 I'd rather be in old John's chimney-corner, faith!
1898 Argosy Sept. 313 Faith, but that was a narrow squake.
1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe ii. 91 Faith, he fair had a face like a monkey, the sutor of Segget and its Provost forbye.
1982 M. Binchy Light Penny Candle II. xii. 284 Faith, and I couldn't keep you in pocket money these days by the look of you.
1992 T. Enright tr. S. O'Crohan Day in our Life 95 The first decade had only just been said when a good hard clod struck Dónall right across the ear but, faith, he never let on.

Phrases

P1. With a preceding preposition.
a.
(a)
(i) by one's faith: on one's word of honour, truly; assuredly. Chiefly used parenthetically as an oath or to emphasize the truth of a statement, esp. in by my faith (also without by, as my faith). Now archaic. [Compare classical Latin meā fide on my guarantee, tuā fide on your guarantee; Anglo-Norman par ma fei and Middle French par ma foi (see par ma fay int.), Middle French sur ma foi (a1440), and ma foi (see ma foi int., mafey int.). Compare earlier par ma fay int.]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > (originally) with reference to faith
par ma fay?a1300
by, upon my (etc.) fayc1300
by one's faitha1375
mafeyc1400
ma foic1400
by the faith of one's body (also love)1421
by my law1477
by my vusse1608
i'fegs1612
i'vads1675
haith1725
my certie1814
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 275 (MED) Now telle me, felawe, be þi feiȝþ..sei þou euer þemperour?
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 178 (MED) He confirmyd thys conuencion to be holde ferme & sure by hys feythe & trowþe.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 48 By your faith seme ye good that I ought to goo after him.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 3 By my faith, by my faith..this geare goeth hard with vs.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 79 Now by my faith and honour. View more context for this quotation
1688 T. Brown Reasons Mr. Bays 17 This is a cutter, by my faith Mr. Bays, it lashes somewhere with a vengeance.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 45 Strange, by my faith! the Hermit said.
1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 98 Weapons outflourished in the wind, my faith!
1925 Boys' Life Jan. 9/1 By my faith, I'm done with the business.
2005 C. J. Farley Kingston by Starlight i. 4 There was time, by my faith, when I was young, as young as you are now.
(ii) Elaborated as by the faith of one's body (also love). Now rare and archaic. [Compare Middle French par la foi de mon corps by the faith of my body (a1370).]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > (originally) with reference to faith
par ma fay?a1300
by, upon my (etc.) fayc1300
by one's faitha1375
mafeyc1400
ma foic1400
by the faith of one's body (also love)1421
by my law1477
by my vusse1608
i'fegs1612
i'vads1675
haith1725
my certie1814
1421 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 30/1 The..lord and his..squyar ar oblist ilkane til other be the faythis of thair boiddis.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcviijv Promisyng and behightyng, by the faith of his body.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 412 By the faith of my loue, I will. View more context for this quotation
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iii. ii. 38 I swear by the faith of my Body now It is a pretty thing.
1833 F. Shoberl tr. V. Hugo Hunchback Notre-Dame (1834) ix. v. 122 This year, by the faith of my body, it will not be under eighty thousand!
1910 N. Gallizier Court of Lucifer ii. xiv. 307 ‘By the faith of my body, Holy Father,’ shouted Fabrizio beside himself.
(b) in faith, i'faith y'faith: in truth, really, truly. Frequently used parenthetically as an oath or to emphasize the truth of a statement. Cf. sense B., in good faith at good faith n., int., and adj. Phrases. Now archaic. [Compare Old French en foi (late 12th cent.), Middle French en ma foi (a1400), both rare.]
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [adverb]
in truthc1330
in faitha1375
in good faitha1393
in casea1398
in effectc1405
indeed1412
effectually1420
actually?a1425
really?a1425
of a truth1494
bottom1531
for a truth?1532
in fact1592
authentically1593
in esse1597
de facto1602
essentially1604
in nature1605
in point of fact1628
positively1649
in point of event1650
effectively1652
honestly1675
entally1691
reely1792
objectively1796
fairlyc1804
in actual fact1824
factually1852
naturally1858
transactionally1866
'smatter of fact1922
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > in truth [interjection]
by (formerly also upon) my truthc1330
i'faitha1375
sootha1400
truth1534
good faitha1566
trotha1616
n'est-ce pas1854
nicht wahr1871
the straight1900
verdad1969
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adverb] > assuredly, indeed
soothlyc825
forsoothc888
wiselyc888
sooth to sayOE
i-wislichec1000
to (‥) soothOE
iwis?c1160
certesa1250
without missa1275
i-witterlic1275
trulyc1275
aplight1297
certc1300
in (good) fayc1300
verily1303
certain1330
in truthc1330
to tell (also speak, say) the truthc1330
certainlya1375
faithlya1375
in faitha1375
surelya1375
in sooth1390
in trothc1390
in good faitha1393
to witc1400
faithfullyc1405
soothly to sayc1405
all righta1413
sad?a1425
in certc1440
wella1470
truec1480
to say (the) truth1484
of a truth1494
of (a) trotha1500
for a truth?1532
in (of) verity1533
of verityc1550
really1561
for, in, or into very?1565
indeed1583
really and truly1600
indeed and indeed1673
right enough1761
deed1816
just1838
of a verity1850
sho1893
though1905
verdad1928
sholy1929
ja-nee1937
only1975
deffo1996
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 858 Fayn sche wold þan in feiþ haue fold him in hire armes.
c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 31 Nedelonges most I sitte him by, Hi-fath, ther wille him non mon butte I.
a1547 J. Redford Moral Play Wit & Sci. (1848) 11 Do ye fle, ifayth?
1598 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (new ed.) f. 52 Ifaith her Queenship little rest should take.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. v. sig. I4v Yfaith, we're well.
1823 J. Clare Let. 10 July (1985) 204 Why efeth as the quaker said thine is a riddle friend that I cannot expound.
1855 R. Browning Bishop Blougram in Men & Women I. 205 Cool i'faith! We ought to have our Abbey back you see.
1900 Living Age 6 Oct. 12/2 In faith I can see very little harm in it.
1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xvii. 234 ‘Mew!’ said she, ‘wittily spoke, i' faith; and right in the manner of a common horse-boy.’
2002 ‘Avi’ Crispin 61 In faith, I did not know how to do otherwise.
(c) on (also upon) one's faith: on one's word of honour. Frequently used parenthetically as an oath or to emphasize the truth of a statement: truly, assuredly. Now archaic. [In quot. 1523 after Middle French sur sa foi (14th cent. in the passage translated; French sur sa foi).]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [adverb]
under oatha1325
on (also upon) one's faithc1405
faithfullyc1450
on (also upon) one's word1582
sacramentally1599
votally1614
promissorily1650
engagingly1651
obligingly1655
votively1857
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Monk's Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 47 Vp on my feith, thow art som Officer.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xxiii. 75 On my feyth ye be well the man.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxi. 254 The kyng of England..trusted them on theyr faithes [Fr. sur leurs fois].
1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. xx. ii. 516 Assuring them on his faith and oath, that he would obtaine a free pardon for all that which was past.
1759 D. Garrick Guardian ii. 41 She seem'd a little out of Humour,—And, upon my Faith, not the less beautiful for a little pouting.
1779 S. Dobson tr. J.-B. de la Curne de Sainte-Palaye Lit. Hist. Troubadors 128 I should pass for a coward..to give up the portion my brother had resigned on his faith.
1840 Evergreen Jan. 44 Promise on your faith—on your honor—on your love!
a1968 J. Steinbeck Acts King Arthur (1976) 279 I promise on my faith.
1999 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Fortress of Owls 336 On my life, my lord, on my life and on my faith, I tell you the truth.
b. on the faith of: in reliance on the security of. [After French sur la foi de in reliance on the security of (a treaty, etc.) (1637 in the passage translated in quot. a1645; compare Middle French sur la foi de (of an oath) in reliance on the word of (a person)).]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [adverb] > with reliance on
upon boldness of1330
on the strength of1590
on the faith ofa1645
fiducially1648
reliably1846
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iii. 100 I give into their hands all regall authority, and on the faith of a solemne Treaty [Fr. sur la foy d'vn traité solemnel] open the gates of this fortresse.
1686 tr. J. Claude Acct. Persecutions Protestants in France 45 They live together in peace, on the Faith of Alliances, Treaties and Promises.
1770 I. Bickerstaff 'Tis Well it's no Worse v. i. 102 I have delivered myself into your hands, Don Guzman, on the faith of your promise.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 28 The bank-note is circulated entirely upon the faith of the issuing bank.
1890 Sir R. Romer in Law Times' Rep. 63 685/2 The plaintiff applied for shares..on the faith of the prospectus.
1981 M. Rezun Soviet Union & Iran viii. 327 On the faith of his version, a group of Soviet ‘workmen’..stopped at a village which was located at a point equidistant between Teheran and Meshed.
2008 P. J. Nahin Digital Dice 259 I am most grateful for her willingness to send a precious, unique photo..on the faith of a telephone call out of the blue from a stranger.
c. on faith: without evidence or investigation; on the authority of another person; on trust. Frequently in to take on faith: to believe or accept in this way; = to take on trust at trust n. 1c.
ΚΠ
1822 T. C. Morgan Sketches Philos. Morals iii. 142 There is in moral science nothing more than in the other branches of philosophy; nothing mysterious, nothing to take on faith.
1866 Let. in E. Frame Twilight of Faith (1871) 10 When you tell your boy to give up the candy, because if he should eat it, he will be sick, and he obeys you, the child acts on faith.
1914 G. H. E. Hawkins Newspaper Advertising 57 The ‘blue sky’ days of advertising, when space was sold by personality and bought on faith, have passed.
1975 H. S. Thompson Let. 12 Oct. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 664 The first time I get a chance to balance it out in some tangible way, I'll do it, which is something you'll just have to take on faith, for good or ill... Anyway, I owe you one.
1989 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 73 494/2 The wisest course..would be to accept the case for polysyllabism on faith.
2005 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 10 July 16/3 I'm no historian, so I'll have to take it on faith that anyone not wearing tights would ever utter the statement, ‘Adieu until the morrow’.
P2. With a verb.
a. to give (one's) faith to (also †unto): to place trust in; to give credence to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > accept as true, believe [verb (transitive)]
ylevec888
leve971
ween971
i-weneOE
takec1175
trowc1175
truth?c1250
thinka1275
believec1300
trustc1325
hold1340
trist1340
to give (one's) faith to (also unto)c1405
accept?c1430
admitc1449
credencea1529
to take a person at his (also her) word1535
credit1547
faith1576
to take a person's word1576
receive1581
creed1596
understand1751
Adam and Eve1925
buy1926
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §607 God suffreth it for folk sholden yeue the moore feith and reuerence to his name.
1457 in A. Clark Lincoln Diocese Documents (1914) 97 (MED) I haue bee present where suche articles and opinions haue bee taught..& yaf faith, credence and beleve to hem att diuers tymes.
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. K4 One oughte to geue more feithe vnto the secrete consentment of the soule, than [etc.].
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxxv. 140 Opinions..unto which they give so much faith.
1717 A. Pope Fable of Dryope in Wks. 278 If to the wretched any faith be giv'n.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vii. 178 You believe..that I am willing to give faith to wonderful stories.
1849 R. Cobden Speeches 69 Now, don't give faith to the idea..that self-government for the colonies is the same thing as dismemberment of the empire.
1939 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 30 Dec. 6/2 To give faith to the communique is to believe that the Russian military authorities deliberately made their task infinitely harder.
2005 H. Prather Morning Notes 361 I freely give my faith to rumors, stories in the news, and the latest nutritional supplement.
b. In phrases relating to making, keeping, or breaking a promise, trust, oath, etc., as to keep (also †hold) (one's) faith, to break (one's) faith, to plight (one's) faith, perjure one's faith. [Compare e.g. classical Latin fidem servāre, fidem tenēre, fidem retinēre to keep faith, fidem obligāre to plight faith, fidem frangere, fidem violāre to break faith, Anglo-Norman fiancer fei to pledge one's faith (1297 or earlier), plevir sa fei to pledge one's word (13th cent. or earlier), porter fei to keep faith, lit. ‘to carry faith’, prendre fei to accept someone's word (both late 12th cent.), mentir sa fei to break one's word or pledge (early 12th cent.).]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)]
queatheOE
sweara900
fangc1175
behightc1275
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
vowa1325
avowc1400
to plight (one's) faithc1410
promitc1422
promise1447
creance1477
to take in vow1526
votec1540
depose1610
vum1785
to nail down1859
pledge1928
the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > observe, adhere, or keep a promise [verb (intransitive)]
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
beholda1400
to hold touch (also the touches)c1400
faithc1410
withholda1450
to keep touch1541
adherec1550
as good as one's word (also promise)c1560
inhere1563
watch1608
maximize1875
the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > fail to observe [verb (intransitive)]
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
to break dayc1300
faithc1410
swerve1527
to break touch1594
jeofail1599
recant1599
recede1648
discede1650
renege1651
shab1699
shaffle1781
weasel1956
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (intransitive)] > commit perjury
forsweara1000
manswearOE
perjure1537
perjurate1623
pejerate1656
perjure one's faith1697
c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 125 Þe gentiles keped hir feiþ [L. fidem..servavere] to þe childe unto þe deienge of Robert.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 89 Non of hem holdeth feyth to another.
?c1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer Former Age (Cambr. Ii.3.21) (1878) l. 48 Euerych of hem his feith to oother kepte.
a1450 Seven Sages (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) l. 3274 For glotonye he brake hys fayth.
?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. bj A man ought..to kepe hys feyth vnto his frendes.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin ix. 473 The better to make you serue for example of punishment to such as accursedly breake their faith to their soueraigne Prince.
c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta ii. ii Faith is not to be held with heretics.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 283 Berowne hath plighted Fayth to me. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 339 No Faith is to be held with such as differ from them.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 36 I my Nisa's perjur'd Faith deplore.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite 78 For you alone, I broke my Faith with injur'd Palamon.
1790 M. O. Warren Ladies of Castile iii. ii, in Poems 137 By St. Peter's key, I've sworn, nor will revoke my plighted faith.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (1875) II. xv. 296 He [sc. Edward I] saw what was best for his age and people; he led the way and kept faith.
1914 W. H. Taft U. S. & Peace iii. 118 On what ground ought we to evade or avoid the effect of the plighted faith of the nation?
1942 National Geographic Mag. June 696/2 But to take idle land away from native Fijians and give it to land-hungry Indians would be to break faith with natives who entrusted—actually ceded—their islands to Britain.
1963 Times 21 Oct. 11/3 It is never right to excuse the breaking of faith..by a government.
2001 Estonian News Agengy (Nexis) 27 Apr. Mois himself has on several occasions plighted his faith to the coalition agreement in Tallinn.
c. to keep the faith: to stay true or faithful to one's promises or convictions, or to the ideologies of a particular group or cause, esp. in testing circumstances; to remain loyal or steadfast. Frequently in imperative. Cf. sense A. 6d.With allusion to 2 Timothy 4:7, ‘I haue fought a good fight, I haue finished my course, I haue kept the faith’ (King James Bible). Cf. to keep (also †hold) (one's) faith at Phrases 2b.
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1896 Literary Digest 10 Oct. 744/2 Is it too much to claim that in giving our support to the nominees of the Chicago convention we are ‘keeping the faith’?
1912 World Almanac & Encyclop. (N.Y. World) 19 (heading) Keep the faith! Carry out party pledges.
1971 B. Sidran Black Talk v. 151 The Black Panthers are still ‘keeping the faith’ in American society.
1997 N.Y. Mag. 22 Dec. 100 (heading) Wonder why Wall Street didn't crater this year? Because the new money cult kept the faith.
2001 Times 2 Jan. ii. 11/2 If this is the umpteenth time that you have decided to quit smoking as a new year's resolution, keep the faith—there is hope.
P3. Noun phrases.
age of faith n. (chiefly with the) (a name for) any period of history in which religion plays an important part, esp. the Middle Ages. Cf. the age of reason at reason n.1 Phrases 1d.
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1679 N. Philips Holy Choice 20 Though we talk much in this Age of Faith, of Faith, and of our Dependance on Future good things, yet tis on Sight, on Sight and in the Enjoyment of the good things that are present, that all Felicity is Plac'd.
1795 Brit. Critic Apr. 427 If the present age be allowed to be, as it has been called, the age of reason, it cannot be the age of faith.
1841 T. Carlyle Heroes iv. 204 Whole ages, what we call ages of Faith, are original,—all men in them, sincere.
1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism ii. 44 The distinction between pawnbroking..and high finance..was as familiar in the Age of Faith as in the twentieth century.
1989 Independent 30 Dec. 38/6 Ours is not the age of faith or reason but the age of information.
2003 Daily Tel. 5 Feb. 25/5 The..service which survives today may be a slightly etiolated version of its pre-dawn original forged in the age of faith.
P4. Other phrases.
a. contrary to faith and variants: not in accordance with religious doctrine; against the tenets of a faith (usually Christianity).
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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. xvi. f. 99v They more hardly enforce this cauillation with sayeng, that I ascribe to the sonne of God desperation, whiche is contrarie to fayth [L. fidei contraria].
1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική xx. 252 Doctrines..such as are contrariant to Faith.
1753 Gentleman's Mag. May 236/2 The remonstrances of conscience are suppressed as contrary to faith.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. App. g. 401 Matters contrary to faith.
1958 F. O'Connor Let. 16 Nov. (1979) 304 As for the Church itself, it takes no official notice of writers unless the work is contrary to faith.
2009 D. G. McCartney James vii. 247 The use of oaths, then, is contrary to faith; it marks unbelief.
b. O ye of little faith and variants: used to rebuke or chide someone who is mistrustful or sceptical of a person, idea, etc. Chiefly humorous in later use. With allusion to various passages in the New Testament (e.g. Matthew 16:8, Luke 12:28) in which Jesus exhorts his disciples to trust in God.
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1762 London Evening Post 16 Nov. And can you, oh ye of little faith; suspect that a Prince with all these amiable qualities, will suffer himself to be cajoled..to sign an inglorious peace?
1888 Monmouth (Indiana) Collegian 17 Jan. 4/3 A Prep. remarks: ‘Oh! ye of little faith. Must think we'll run off before we pay our tuition!’
1913 Gas Age 15 Mar. 286/2 Hundreds of managers who are even now waiting to see whether a lighting campaign will pay... ‘O, ye of little faith!’
1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Dec. a21 I am the one who said back in March that if a woman wanted to be nominated for vice president she would have to run for the office. Oh me of little faith.
2000 I. Pattison Stranger here Myself (2001) ii. 72 O ye of little faith you may doubt my word but I bet it would tan the arse off The Generation Game.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
faith-breach n. [compare post-classical Latin fidefragium (15th cent. in a British source); compare earlier faith-breaking n. and adj. at Compounds 2a and breach of faith at breach n. 3a]
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1600 J. Golburne tr. C. de Valera Two Treat. i. 117 This faith-breach [Sp. este romper de fé], was cause of great bloodshed in the great warres which afterwards happened in Bohemia.
1726 A. Gavin Master-key to Popery (ed. 2) 108 The Romans say, no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks; and this Faith-Breach was the Occasion of great Blood-shed in the Wars.
?1819 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1992) III. 104 The encroachment & faith-breach of the Spanish Crown.
2002 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 16 June (Agenda section) 7 He is tormented by history, his faith-breach, his mother's death.
faith definition n. now rare
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1662 H. Holden Check Late Act Roman-inquisition vi. 10 Make their acceptation the last and best Test of even a General Councils Infallibility in Faith-Definitions.
1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 209 But he will finde no such fopperies in Faith-definitions made by the Catholick Church.
2002 Rev. Relig. Res. 44 72 Four categories emerged from the faith definitions and stories respondents told.
faith leader n.
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1901 Gaz. & Courier (Greenfield, Mass.) 8 June 12/1 John Alexander Dowie, who has a great following as a faith leader.
1937 Panama City (Florida) News-Herald 30 Aug. 4/2 (title) Three faith leaders meet at Williamstown.
2011 Church Times 28 Oct. 4/1 The faith leaders told the Deputy Mayor about youth work among young men in London.
faith philosophy n.
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1841 ‘Victorious Analysis’ Lay Serm. Hist. Christianity I. 33 A new misbelief, which is almost as different from..the clear faith philosophy of Saint Paul, as infidelity itself!
1909 C. G. Shaw in F. Rolt-Wheeler Sci.-hist. of Universe X. i. 97 Herder opposed Kant both theoretically and esthetically, offering in contrast a faith-philosophy of reality and naturistic idea of beauty.
2001 G. Barna & M. Hatch Boiling Point ix. 186 Nobody cares about the inconsistencies embedded within our faith philosophies.
faith reformation n. rare
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1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 233 The..most refin'd quintessence of all Faith-Reformation.
2009 H. J. Baron et al. tr. H. J. Selderhuis Calvin Handbk. 499 He [sc. Calvin] brought together the concerns of Luther's faith reformation and Zwingli's life reformation.
faith tradition n.
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1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 43 A compleat and proper notion of Faith-Tradition.
1870 J. M'Clintock & J. Strong Cycl. Biblical, Theol., & Eccl. Lit. III. 463/1 The rule of faith tradition is an authority independent of Scripture.
2009 Church Times 24 Apr. 11/2 A vester could be lay or ordained and from any faith tradition.
C2.
a. Objective.
faith-breaker n. [compare post-classical Latin fidefragus, fidifragus (from 13th cent. in British sources)]
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 153 Feythe breke(r),..fidifragus.
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James II in Wks. (1711) 30 They declare the King, and those that abode with him, Faith-breakers.
1864 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxviii, in Monthly Packet Apr. 385 He was..no faith breaker.
2009 H. Bromhead Reign of Truth & Faith vii. 162 It is God..who is more likely to impose penalties on the faith-breaker.
faith-breaking n. and adj.
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1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration f. lviii What caste you him in the teth with faith breaking [L. fidei violationem]?
?1600 Earl of Essex Apologie sig. Div How easie it will be for a faith breaking enemie to confiscate all our countrimens goodes.
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iii. vii. 174 The very instant of her faith-breaking.
1783 C. J. Fox Substance Speech E. India Bill 32 To hear a Minister of this Country talk of fearing a war with that faith-breaking Nation.
1858 Househ. Words 9 Jan. 92/2 The cry of faith-breaking would not meet with a response in this part of the world.
1997 Vanity Fair Aug. 61/3 And the whole cringe-making, faith-breaking thing of it was that the Indians didn't even want to use their passports to go to London.
faith-confirming adj.
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1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 32 What faith-confirming and heart-cheering rich returns of prayers hath the Lord our good God cast into our blessed bosomes.
1842 P. M‘Owan Memorial Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ i. 31 A beautiful and faith-confirming exposition.
2005 M. P. Battin Ending Life ix. 200 An extremely powerful, faith-confirming experience.
faith-infringing adj. Obsolete
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1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie 24 A faith-infringing Polymnestor.
faith-keeping n. and adj.
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c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 233 Than has he lak and dishonour, and j haue honour and worschip of faith keping.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence viii. 253 This was..giuen..in recomendation of loyaltie or faith-keeping.
1661 R. Trail Traitors Claim 13 Drawing the guilt and disgrace of cruelty, revenge and perfidie on a Faith-keeping Prince and Parliament.
1720 M. Shelton Hist. & Crit. Ess. True Rise Nobility I. (new ed.) v. 341 In Recommendation of Loyalty or Faith-keeping.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 383 The faith-keeping Prince of the Scotts.
1971 W. Farnham Shakespearean Grotesque v. 136 Though the words have been spoken by a Troilus who was an all-or-nothing adherent of faith-keeping in warfare, they have proved later to be entirely suitable for a Troilus no less intense as an adherent of faith-keeping in courtly love.
1999 New Musical Express 30 Oct. 33/1 All the gaudiness..is precisely what sends the devotees into a faith-keepin' frenzy.
faith-shaking adj.
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1837 J. F. Cooper Recoll. Europe I. xii. 299 There was a faith-shaking brevity in this process, which..if not fraudulent, was ill-judged.
1921 I. H. Gillmore Story of Woman's Party iv. xvii. 474 The younger ones..witnessed faith-shaking sights, and underwent even more faith-shaking experiences.
2004 A. Sohn My Old Man 4 The most faith-shaking event I had experienced was getting a C- on a..Calc exam.
faith-straining adj.
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1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator 172 Here are some faith-straining figures.
1999 L. E. Goodman Jewish & Islamic Philos. vi. 151 No faith-straining dogmas were to be found in scripture.
faith stretcher n.
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1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. I3v Those Faith-stretchers..that..put mens Persons or their Consciences upon the torture.
1942 Moberly Monitor Index 6 June 2/2 The Children's Day program is a faith stretcher.
b. Instrumental and other compounds.
faith-sown adj. Obsolete rare
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1844 J. G. Whittier in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 61 Faith-sown seeds Which ripen in the soil of love.
faith-starved adj.
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1946 R. Campbell Talking Bronco 69 Where faith-starved multitudes may quarry As in a mountain, and be fed.
1997 Harvard Ukrainian Stud. 21 243 The ideological void created by the withering away of Marxism-Leninism..has left tens of millions of faith-starved individuals.
C3.
faith-based adj. chiefly U.S. (a) based on religious faith; (b) designating or relating to a charitable institution, social program, etc., created or managed by a religious organization.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > [adjective]
fideal1854
faith-based1869
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [adjective] > other types of association, society, or organization
self-employed1777
faith-based1869
non-profit1896
not-for-profit1913
for-profit1939
1869 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 24 Apr. Holding a middle place between the faith-based ethics of theology and the bald materialism of physiology, comes political economy.
1874 J. H. Vosburg Ralph Elmwood 71 Hope is real, Faith-based, to those who will not think, but feel.
1957 Hagerstown (Maryland) Daily Mail 3 Dec. 14/1 There has been a shift in emphasis on your part..away from exclusive reliance upon psychiatric theory, and more in the direction of a kind of faith-based humanism.
1986 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 7 Jan. b3/2 Witness for Peace is a grassroots, non-violent, faith-based movement committed to changing U.S. policy toward Nicaragua.
1998 Newsweek 1 June 26/2 Congress..has swung behind a series of policy changes..which allow federal, state and local funds to flow to faith-based anti-poverty groups.
2009 J. Kellerman True Detectives xxiv. 227 I know that faith-based notions of good and evil don't wash in today's society.
faith community n. (a) a community of people of the same religion; spec. a group of people leading a communal life according to their religious faith; (b) people with religious faith collectively.
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society > society and the community > [noun] > a community > other types of community
churchOE
phalanx1602
republic1610
phalanstery1839
faith community1896
technocracy1925
plural community1939
Dogpatch1946
discourse community1972
1896 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 23 Dec. Beginning with the primitive Christians, who ‘took no thought for the morrow,’ there have been many of these faith communities.
1979 Harvard Theol. Rev. 72 13 The relation of the theologian to the faith community is analogous to that of the scientist to the human community.
1992 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 25 Oct. h2 The faith community could play an important role in keeping Atlanta peaceful and in moving it toward racial justice.
2013 Church Times 25 Jan. 37/3 Newell is writing from New Harmony, Indiana, where a faith community has been built on the foundations of a 19th-century Christian utopian experiment.
faith cure n. an instance of faith healing; a cure attributed to the power of faith.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > non-scientific treatments > [noun] > faith-healing
spiritual healing1869
faith cure1875
faith healing1880
1875 C. Nordhoff Communistic Societies U.S. 268 Religious Belief and Faith Cures.
1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors xii. 293 The belief in faith cures rests upon testimony.
1997 Advocate 4 Feb. 70/3 A Georgia housewife seeking a faith cure for her daughter.
faith-curer n. = faith healer n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > alternative practitioner > [noun] > faith healer
faith-curer1883
faith curist1883
faith healer1885
1883 Boston Daily Advertiser 8 Jan. 2/5 The faith curers do not, as a rule, stick to their own text.
1950 J. H. Leuba Reformation of Churches vi. 68 These clergymen, like the faith curers, do not deny the operation of natural laws.
2004 J. Myrus Loving Jesse iii. 36 I think you're becoming a faith-curer now, Ben, telling me my medical condition was all of the mind.
faith curist n. now rare. = faith healer n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > alternative practitioner > [noun] > faith healer
faith-curer1883
faith curist1883
faith healer1885
1883 Homiletic Monthly Aug. 661/1 I heard next day an exaggerated report of my conquest by the faith curist.
1888 N.Y. Herald 29 July 16/6 Great preparations are being made by the Faith-Curists..for their annual conference.
1925 W. F. Cooley Aim of Jesus Christ 33 In a sense he [sc. Jesus] was a faith curist: his curative power was conditioned by the patient's belief.
1974 Church Hist. 43 506 The entire course of the debate was beset with difficulties for the faith curist.
faith fire n. figurative faith imagined as a fire which produces light or heat, or which needs fuel or tending.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > flame of
faith fire1844
1844 United Catholic Mag. Sept. 557/1 The glow of its own inward faith-fire.
1890 J. McCave & J. D. Breen Alcester Lect. 40 Neighbouring bishops were expected to keep the faith-fire ablaze along their frontiers.
2012 T. Hallman Stranger's Gift xi. 103 We add to another person's faith fire.
faith group n. a group of people belonging to or representing a particular religious faith; the members of a particular faith considered collectively.
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1940 Contemp. Jewish Rec. 3 468 The smallest of the three major faith groups, the Jewish community.
1965 Univ. Mich. President's Rep 1964–5 219 Twenty-five different religious organizations maintain centers for their students, a central office within the University must provide a degree of liaison with these faith groups.
2011 A. Gibbons Act of Love (2012) Epil. 292 The mosque will be repaired by donations from the worshippers and from other faith groups and ordinary individuals.
faith healer n. a person who practises faith healing; cf. faith-curer n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > alternative practitioner > [noun] > faith healer
faith-curer1883
faith curist1883
faith healer1885
1885 Cent. Mag. 31 276 We claim that all faith-healers should report as do our hospitals.
1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. p. xxxiii (advt.) The day of reckoning for bone-crushers and faith healers has come.
2001 Sci. Fiction Chron. June 27/1 Bible-thumping faith healers with bad toupees.
faith healing n. healing attributed to the power of faith.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > non-scientific treatments > [noun] > faith-healing
spiritual healing1869
faith cure1875
faith healing1880
1880 C. J. Montgomery Prayer of Faith x. 135 The principle of faith-healing.
1927 Amer. Mercury July 292/1 He devoted himself to faith healing, an ancient shamanism.
2002 P. Thomas What works, what Doesn't xviii. 240 Spiritual healing has generally tried to distance itself from religious faith healing.
faith ladder n. a model of a step-by-step process by which an individual comes to (religious) faith.The faith ladder is particularly associated with William James (1842-1910) whose description of the stages by which a person assents to faith was published posthumously in 1911.
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1889 Presbyterian Q. Apr. 227 They serve and worship the same God, but their theoretical faith-ladder is very differently constructed.
a1910 W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) App. 224 The following steps may be called the ‘faith ladder’: 1. There is nothing absurd in a certain view of the world being true, nothing self-contradictory; 2. It might have been true under certain conditions; 3. It may be true, even now; 4. It is fit to be true; 5. It ought to be true; 6. It must be true; 7. It shall be true, at any rate true for me.
2008 M. Sullivan Windows into Light 111 We don't have to climb another rung on the faith ladder.
faith-mark n. Obsolete rare (a) an heirloom valued for its spiritual significance; (b) one of the main tenets of religion.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > [noun] > instance
truth1395
faithc1400
dogma1534
doctrinals1619
tendry1624
faith-mark1652
dogmatism1664
thought mode1939
1652 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 1st Pt. iii. 235 God forbid..that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. If the antient land-markes be not to be removed, much less the faith-markes.
1822 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. June 443 When once the ancient faith marks of the Church are lost sight of.
faith-press n. Obsolete rare = inquisition n. 3a. [After Dutch †geloof-pers , lit. ‘faith-oppression’ (1608 in the passage translated in quot. 1624).]
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society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > papal court (Inquisition) > [noun]
inquisition1502
Spanish Inquisition1560
faith-press1624
Holy Office1642
1624 T. Wood tr. Verheiden Oration 55 That most intolerable..thraldome of the Inquisition, or Faith-presse [Du. Gheloof-persse].
faith school n. now chiefly British a school where teaching is given in accordance with the tenets of (a particular) religious faith; spec. a school especially for children of a particular religion.
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1883 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 5 Nov. 3/3 It seems that the head personage in the faith school [sc. a college offering instruction in Christian Science] is Mrs. Eddy, of Boston.
1987 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 3 Feb. b14 Today we have quite a few private and faith schools that do very good teaching.
1990 Independent on Sunday 25 Mar. (Review Suppl.) 44/1 They have recently joined forces with the Muslims to demand government funding for separate faith schools against the prevailing trend of multi-faith education.
2008 Independent 3 Apr. 2/4 The study by the Department for Children, Schools and Families shows that faith schools have become so popular that they can now cherry-pick pupils.
faith-state n. the state of having (religious) faith.
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1867 T. L. Harris Arcana of Christianity: Pt. III Apocalypse ii. 94 To convulse the body with anguish, induce the conviction in the mind that God has forsaken it, and break the faith-state.
1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 158 To induce what psychologists call the faith state may be a very great and wonderful thing if the object of faith is worthy.
2000 tr. H. Joas Genesis of Values iii. 49 This..already hints at some of the cognitive features of the faith-state.
faith value n. a quality, value, etc., deriving from or founded on faith; (also) value or worth with regard to faith.
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1903 G. Tyrrell Lex Orandi xxiii. 191 Mistakings of faith-values for fact-values are to be ascribed to that almost ineradicable materialism of the human mind which makes us view the visible world as the only solid reality.
1954 E. Kaiser & E. Wilkins tr. F. Kafka Dearest Father 48 Even the simple fact of our life is of a faith-value that can never be exhausted.
2011 J. Doyle Mediating Climate Change iv. 87 Actions are centred around the use of existing faith values to engage people.
faithworkful adj. Obsolete rare (perhaps) created as a work of faith.
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1604 H. Broughton Aduert. Corrupt. Handling Relig. sig. M3 Troupfull Gad was grauen in this faithworkfull stone.

Derivatives

faithwise adv. (a) by means of faith; (b) with regard to faith.
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1852 A. Pridham Notes & Refl. on Epist. to Romans i. 12 (Note) Faith-wise and unto (or, for) faith’, may perhaps nearly express the meaning.
?1872 W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth 69 Salvation came intellect-wise, and not faith-wise.
1967 Times 13 Oct. 7/2 Faithwise they face problems.
2004 H. Jacobson Making of Henry 44 He wanted his wife to be safe and his son—though he had a feeling it went against the grain faithwise—to be the Baby Jesus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

faithv.

Brit. /feɪθ/, U.S. /feɪθ/
Forms: see faith n. and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: faith n.
Etymology: < faith n.
No evidence found between mid 17th cent. and late 19th cent.
1.
a. intransitive. To have faith, believe. Sometimes humorous in later use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > believe [verb (intransitive)]
weenc888
believea1225
aglea1325
to give credence toc1395
faithc1438
to add faith to?1483
to give credit to something1533
credit1557
to take (large etc.) stock in (rarely of)1870
c1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) ii. 253 (MED) Alle þo þat feithyn & trustyn, er xul feithyn & trustyn, in my preyerys in-to worldys ende.
1920 Iowa City Press Citizen 5 June 8/7 I made up my mind to have faith that he wouldn't bite me. And I faithed just as hard as I could.
1997 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. 6 b [Faith] is not something that is static. We are faithing throughout life.
b. transitive. To give credence to, believe in, trust.In quot. 2006: (in passive) to be based on faith.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > accept as true, believe [verb (transitive)]
ylevec888
leve971
ween971
i-weneOE
takec1175
trowc1175
truth?c1250
thinka1275
believec1300
trustc1325
hold1340
trist1340
to give (one's) faith to (also unto)c1405
accept?c1430
admitc1449
credencea1529
to take a person at his (also her) word1535
credit1547
faith1576
to take a person's word1576
receive1581
creed1596
understand1751
Adam and Eve1925
buy1926
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 196 He shall haue cause, neither to falsifie the one opinion lightly, nor to faithe the other vnaduisedly.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vi. 70 Could the reposure of any trust..in thee make thy words fayth'd?
1636 E. Norice Treat. Temporall Blessings ii. 56 If any say they have Repentance, Faith, and Love, and misse of the very thing faithed in Praier: they make God a deceiver.
1963 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 29 May 20/2 Brings into being that which did not exist before men ‘faithed’ it.
2006 G. D. Bouma Austral. Soul i. 26 Religious belief is always faithed.
2. transitive. To provide (the church, a person, etc.) with a creed or standard of faith. In later use (more generally) to grant faith to.
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1547 J. Hooper Declar. Christe v These decrees that papistry of late days faithed the church withal.
1645 T. Shepard Sound Beleever i. 107 A Christian is not justified by faith, (which was Pauls phrase) but rather..faithed by his justification.
1899 F. R. Dutton Fraternity 47 If only those gigantic minds had been imbued And faithed by heaven's truths sublime.
2012 R. Bonnke Taking Action ix. 155 If we are ‘faithed’ by the Spirit, we can tackle the impossible.
3. intransitive. To place or rest one's faith on a person. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > trust [verb (intransitive)]
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1555 Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans i. vi. sig. D.vi/1 By whose example women may well lere How they shuld faith or trusten on any man.
4. transitive. To declare (something) on one's word of honour. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > on one's word of honour
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1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 10 It is called faithfulnesse, because it is fullfilled, which was faithed [L. quia fiat quod dictum est].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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