单词 | to bear faith |
释义 | > as lemmasto bear faith 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 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 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. < as lemmas |
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