good faithn.int.adj.

Brit.

/ˌɡʊd ˈfeɪθ/, U.S.

/ˌɡʊd ˈfeɪθ/

Forms: see good adj., n., adv., and int. and faith n. and int.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: good adj., faith n.

Etymology: < good adj. + faith n., after Anglo-Norman bone fei, Middle French bonne foy (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier in Old French, frequently in en bone fei loyally, with honesty or sincerity of intention; French bonne foi ) and its model classical Latin bona fidēs bona fides n.With the use as interjection without preposition, compare earlier faith int.

A. n.

Faithfulness, loyalty, truthfulness; esp. honesty or sincerity of intention. Frequently in in good faith at Phrases. Cf. bona fides n.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [noun]

truthOE

trotha1225

truefastnessa1225

trueshipa1225

trueness?c1225

soothnessc1275

faithc1300

good faithc1300

trustc1300

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

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2853 (MED) Hauelok..dide hem grete oþes swere, þat he sholden him god feyth bere.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6778 To vse gode faiþ god vs bede.

?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 293 By good fayghte [1480 Caxton feyth] and truste.

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. l. 83 (MED) Þan folwid þey her fre fader, as good feith wolde.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. viii. 3/2 He wolde nothyng to her but all loue and good faith.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 616 They handle together with good faith.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 27 The former Opinion..of their good Faith, and Clearnesse of dealing.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 131 Whence comes all circumvention in Commerce, adulterating of Wares, vouching and varnishing against all good Faith and Honesty?

1763 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) I. 89 Testimonies of an unbounded confidence in your veracity and good faith.

1824 J. Mackintosh Speech in Commons 15 June in Wks. (1846) III. 464 They have been able to observe good faith with their creditors.

1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 37 Among what..men..are fellowship and good faith possible?

1920 Northeastern Reporter 127 3/1 Had he shown good faith in his solemn engagements of marriage, he would have been protected from the rigor of the law.

1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (FT Money section) 2/1 Anyone whose derivatives are in that state is supposed to deposit $270m in cash to demonstrate good faith.

B. int.

Emphasizing the truth or honesty of a statement or assertion; ‘in truth’, ‘truly’. Cf. earlier in good faith at Phrases a, faith int. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

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

a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fj^v Good faith maister Grimme, if such Marlines on your pouch may light.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. iv. 16 Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold.

1665 J. Wilson Projectors 228 Mrs. Got. Sirrah..look out and mind your business..Got. Good faith, I do. Mrs. Got. Yes, among your gills too much! What was that you said to our maid t' other night?

1796 R. Burns Honest Man vii. 3 Guid faith, he manna fa' that!

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. v. 90 Good faith, he has no choice.

1862 W. C. Bennett Poems (new ed.) 224 But when I think of Kansas, friends, And all her judges screen, Good faith! my Yankee fever ends.

1909 J. P. Peabody Piper iii. 111 Nay, but wait.—Good faith, Wait.

C. adj.

Usually hyphenated. Done, entered into, or undertaken in the belief that what one is doing is right or correct; honest or sincere in intention.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [adjective] > characterized by goodwill or kind intention

well-willingOE

kindlya1375

well-meant?1476

well-wished1560

well-natured1561

willing-minded1564

well-meaned1580

well-intendeda1586

well-designed1641

well-designing1670

goodwilly1706

well-intentioned1734

good faith1880

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [adjective] > to a promise

faithful?a1425

good faith1880

1880 Albany Law Jrnl. 30 Oct. 257/2 A good faith agreement between the parties in a contract of insurance, to annul it, is valid.

1915 Northwestern Reporter 152 258/2 The plaintiff..had knowledge or notice of such facts as to make its..acceptance of the check a bad-faith and not a good-faith acceptance.

1989 Spin Oct. 35/3 That offer was made in an attempt to screw up the good-faith agreement that the Beastie Boys had reached with Capitol Records.

2010 C. Seife Proofiness ii. 66 It isn't even a good-faith attempt to try to explain data.

Phrases

in good faith.

a. As an exclamatory phrase: = sense B. Cf. in faith at faith n. and int. Phrases 1a(b). Now rare. [Compare Middle French de bonne foy (late 14th cent. or earlier), en bonne foy (1477; Anglo-Norman en bone fei is apparently not recorded as interjection).]

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 > [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

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 712 In good feith, to telle soth, I trowe,..Sche wolde noght hire yhe swerve.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 30 For in good feith, thy visage is ful pale.

1445 A. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 27 In good feyth I dare wel seyne it was yowre fadris laste wille to have do ryȝht wel to that plase.

c1450 (a1400) Chevalere Assigne l. 130 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 864 She..askede hym, in good feyth, what fell of þe chyldren.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 47/1 In good faith..I woulde not bee he that [etc.].

1580 G. Harvey in E. Spenser & G. Harvey Three Proper & Wittie Lett. 41 In good faith I had once againe nigh forgotten your Faerie Queene.

1649 Mercurius Brittanicus No. 4 27 In good faith I have a dog-slash with a bell at the end of it, I will whip thee into better manners.

1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) iv. 103 ‘In good faith,’ says John..‘the Dutch has some other tow in their rock.’

1851 tr. A. Dumas Six Years Later xxxiii. 164/1 ‘Do you, perchance, consider me unjust toward the revolution? Now, tell me that?’ ‘In good faith, yes.’

1883 G. Macdonald in L. C. French Man. Elocution 98 What a marvel of power am I! With my breath, In good faith, I blew her to death!

b. In the sincere belief that what one is doing is right or correct; with honesty or sincerity of intention.

ΚΠ

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxiv. f. xxvii^v He sawe well the Erle spake in good faithe.

1598 H. W. tr. True Coppie Admon. Subdued Provinces sig. C The same shal also in good faith be effectually without any prolongation, or difficultie for what cause soeuer executed vnto those who shalbe thereunto appoynted.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vii. 473/1 The same in good faith keepe, and without mal-Engyn.

1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 611 The King promised in good Faith, and without Cavil, to observe the great Charter.

1717 B. Kennett tr. J. Barbeyrac in tr. S. von Pufendorf Law of Nature & Nations (ed. 3) iii. vi. 62 A Contract is neither null by Right, nor subject to be made void.., when it is transacted by a Contract of good Faith, and has no other Source than an Action done in good Faith.

1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 16 Their Bills became of less Value than those of New-York; but being yearly in good Faith, sunk, they became equal.

1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 15 139 It is admitted that the magistrates..acted in good faith.

1922 J. F. Donnelly Treat. Law Public Contracts xxiii. 257 Its action in annulling will be presumed to be in good faith.

2007 Church Times 11 May 9/3 A total lack of moral integrity in deliberately failing to honour promises entered into in good faith.

Compounds

good-faith residence adj. U.S. Law residence within a state or territory which is permanent (or honestly intended to be so), as opposed to notional or temporary residence with the intention of benefiting from laws particular to that state or territory.

ΚΠ

1891 Aberdeen (S. Dakota) Daily News 21 Aug. Mme. de Steurs,..in order to establish a good faith residence in the state, in the interest of the divorce suit she has instituted at Sioux Falls, has purchased a $12,500 residence here.

1916 Oregon & Calif. Land Grants (U.S. Congr.) 274 Mr. Williams said it was not his intention to debar or exclude those men that had actually made a bona fide good-faith residence on the land.

2004 Jrnl. Contemp. Legal Issues 14 420 In the past, the Court had upheld durational residence requirements as perhaps the most workable way to determine good-faith residence.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	good faith
释义	good faithn.int.adj. Brit. /ˌɡʊd ˈfeɪθ/, U.S. /ˌɡʊd ˈfeɪθ/ Forms: see good adj., n., adv., and int. and faith n. and int. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: good adj., faith n. Etymology: < good adj. + faith n., after Anglo-Norman bone fei, Middle French bonne foy (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier in Old French, frequently in en bone fei loyally, with honesty or sincerity of intention; French bonne foi ) and its model classical Latin bona fidēs bona fides n.With the use as interjection without preposition, compare earlier faith int. A. n. Faithfulness, loyalty, truthfulness; esp. honesty or sincerity of intention. Frequently in in good faith at Phrases. Cf. bona fides n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [noun] truthOE trotha1225 truefastnessa1225 trueshipa1225 trueness?c1225 soothnessc1275 faithc1300 good faithc1300 trustc1300 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 c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2853 (MED) Hauelok..dide hem grete oþes swere, þat he sholden him god feyth bere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6778 To vse gode faiþ god vs bede. ?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 293 By good fayghte [1480 Caxton feyth] and truste. c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. l. 83 (MED) Þan folwid þey her fre fader, as good feith wolde. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. viii. 3/2 He wolde nothyng to her but all loue and good faith. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 616 They handle together with good faith. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 27 The former Opinion..of their good Faith, and Clearnesse of dealing. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 131 Whence comes all circumvention in Commerce, adulterating of Wares, vouching and varnishing against all good Faith and Honesty? 1763 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) I. 89 Testimonies of an unbounded confidence in your veracity and good faith. 1824 J. Mackintosh Speech in Commons 15 June in Wks. (1846) III. 464 They have been able to observe good faith with their creditors. 1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 37 Among what..men..are fellowship and good faith possible? 1920 Northeastern Reporter 127 3/1 Had he shown good faith in his solemn engagements of marriage, he would have been protected from the rigor of the law. 1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (FT Money section) 2/1 Anyone whose derivatives are in that state is supposed to deposit $270m in cash to demonstrate good faith. B. int. Emphasizing the truth or honesty of a statement or assertion; ‘in truth’, ‘truly’. Cf. earlier in good faith at Phrases a, faith int. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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 a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fj^v Good faith maister Grimme, if such Marlines on your pouch may light. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. iv. 16 Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold. View more context for this quotation 1665 J. Wilson Projectors 228 Mrs. Got. Sirrah..look out and mind your business..Got. Good faith, I do. Mrs. Got. Yes, among your gills too much! What was that you said to our maid t' other night? 1796 R. Burns Honest Man vii. 3 Guid faith, he manna fa' that! 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. v. 90 Good faith, he has no choice. 1862 W. C. Bennett Poems (new ed.) 224 But when I think of Kansas, friends, And all her judges screen, Good faith! my Yankee fever ends. 1909 J. P. Peabody Piper iii. 111 Nay, but wait.—Good faith, Wait. C. adj. Usually hyphenated. Done, entered into, or undertaken in the belief that what one is doing is right or correct; honest or sincere in intention. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [adjective] > characterized by goodwill or kind intention well-willingOE kindlya1375 well-meant?1476 well-wished1560 well-natured1561 willing-minded1564 well-meaned1580 well-intendeda1586 well-designed1641 well-designing1670 goodwilly1706 well-intentioned1734 good faith1880 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [adjective] > to a promise faithful?a1425 good faith1880 1880 Albany Law Jrnl. 30 Oct. 257/2 A good faith agreement between the parties in a contract of insurance, to annul it, is valid. 1915 Northwestern Reporter 152 258/2 The plaintiff..had knowledge or notice of such facts as to make its..acceptance of the check a bad-faith and not a good-faith acceptance. 1989 Spin Oct. 35/3 That offer was made in an attempt to screw up the good-faith agreement that the Beastie Boys had reached with Capitol Records. 2010 C. Seife Proofiness ii. 66 It isn't even a good-faith attempt to try to explain data. Phrases in good faith. a. As an exclamatory phrase: = sense B. Cf. in faith at faith n. and int. Phrases 1a(b). Now rare. [Compare Middle French de bonne foy (late 14th cent. or earlier), en bonne foy (1477; Anglo-Norman en bone fei is apparently not recorded as interjection).] 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 > [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 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 712 In good feith, to telle soth, I trowe,..Sche wolde noght hire yhe swerve. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 30 For in good feith, thy visage is ful pale. 1445 A. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 27 In good feyth I dare wel seyne it was yowre fadris laste wille to have do ryȝht wel to that plase. c1450 (a1400) Chevalere Assigne l. 130 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 864 She..askede hym, in good feyth, what fell of þe chyldren. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 47/1 In good faith..I woulde not bee he that [etc.]. 1580 G. Harvey in E. Spenser & G. Harvey Three Proper & Wittie Lett. 41 In good faith I had once againe nigh forgotten your Faerie Queene. 1649 Mercurius Brittanicus No. 4 27 In good faith I have a dog-slash with a bell at the end of it, I will whip thee into better manners. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) iv. 103 ‘In good faith,’ says John..‘the Dutch has some other tow in their rock.’ 1851 tr. A. Dumas Six Years Later xxxiii. 164/1 ‘Do you, perchance, consider me unjust toward the revolution? Now, tell me that?’ ‘In good faith, yes.’ 1883 G. Macdonald in L. C. French Man. Elocution 98 What a marvel of power am I! With my breath, In good faith, I blew her to death! b. In the sincere belief that what one is doing is right or correct; with honesty or sincerity of intention. ΚΠ 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxiv. f. xxvii^v He sawe well the Erle spake in good faithe. 1598 H. W. tr. True Coppie Admon. Subdued Provinces sig. C The same shal also in good faith be effectually without any prolongation, or difficultie for what cause soeuer executed vnto those who shalbe thereunto appoynted. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vii. 473/1 The same in good faith keepe, and without mal-Engyn. 1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 611 The King promised in good Faith, and without Cavil, to observe the great Charter. 1717 B. Kennett tr. J. Barbeyrac in tr. S. von Pufendorf Law of Nature & Nations (ed. 3) iii. vi. 62 A Contract is neither null by Right, nor subject to be made void.., when it is transacted by a Contract of good Faith, and has no other Source than an Action done in good Faith. 1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 16 Their Bills became of less Value than those of New-York; but being yearly in good Faith, sunk, they became equal. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 15 139 It is admitted that the magistrates..acted in good faith. 1922 J. F. Donnelly Treat. Law Public Contracts xxiii. 257 Its action in annulling will be presumed to be in good faith. 2007 Church Times 11 May 9/3 A total lack of moral integrity in deliberately failing to honour promises entered into in good faith. Compounds good-faith residence adj. U.S. Law residence within a state or territory which is permanent (or honestly intended to be so), as opposed to notional or temporary residence with the intention of benefiting from laws particular to that state or territory. ΚΠ 1891 Aberdeen (S. Dakota) Daily News 21 Aug. Mme. de Steurs,..in order to establish a good faith residence in the state, in the interest of the divorce suit she has instituted at Sioux Falls, has purchased a $12,500 residence here. 1916 Oregon & Calif. Land Grants (U.S. Congr.) 274 Mr. Williams said it was not his intention to debar or exclude those men that had actually made a bona fide good-faith residence on the land. 2004 Jrnl. Contemp. Legal Issues 14 420 In the past, the Court had upheld durational residence requirements as perhaps the most workable way to determine good-faith residence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.int.adj.c1300
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