OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12094

faith

/feɪθ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
confianza • fe
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.
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A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
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A religious or spiritual belief system.
The Christian faith.
We seek justice for the Indo-European Folk Faith; what's wrong in our literature for that?