belief
IPA: bɪɫˈif
noun
- Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
- Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
- (countable) Something believed.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
- (uncountable) Religious faith.
- (in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
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Examples of "belief" in Sentences
- Herod was perplexed by the belief.
- Honesty of belief is the touchstone.
- Monotheism is the belief in one god.
- The prerequisite of religion is belief.
- But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief.
- The analogy is not the basis for the belief.
- It is the belief in the negation of another belief.
- Heterosexism is the belief in heterosexual superiority.
- It is the belief that the proposition of theism is false.
- This is evidence that your ostensive beliefs are in bad faith.
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