faith
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
faith/feɪθ/
▶noun
- 1 complete trust or confidence.
- 2 strong belief in a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
■ a particular religion.
– origin ME: from OFr. feid, from L. fides.
'faith' also found in these Oxford entries:
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- auto-da-fé
- bad faith
- Baha'i
- believe
- bona fide
- bona fides
- born-again
- catholic
- confession
- confessional
- confessor
- confidence
- convert
- creance
- creed
- DF
- disbelief
- disbelieve
- ethnic
- evangelical
- evangelist
- faith healing
- faithless
- faith school
- Falasha
- FD
- Fid. Def.
- fideism
- fidelity
- gage
- give
- good faith
- implicit
- infidelity
- Islam
- legalism
- Lutheran Church
- mala fides
- Melkite
- mezuzah
- mission
- Moravian
- multi-faith
- non-believer
- pin
- plight
- profess
- professor
