faith

IPA: fˈeɪθ

A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
A religious or spiritual belief system.
An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
(obsolete) Credibility or truth.
A female given name from English.
A surname, also used as a stage name.
A city in South Dakota, United States.

(archaic) Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”) [(archaic) really, truly]

Examples of "faith" in Sentences

We speak a great deal in Europe about 'faith-based' education, 'faith schools 'and so on.
The political instability has also undermined investors 'faith in our economy — faith we can ill-afford to lose.
All of this -- the ''gut'' and ''instincts,'' the certainty and religiosity -connects to a single word, ''faith,'' and faith asserts its hold ever more on debates in this country and abroad.
"Turn the other cheek" is at the core of the red states 'faith, and though I guess it's buried pretty deep right now (I have a lot things buried deep in me too,) there's this concept in the Christian faith called the resurrection.
There is more involved than simply defending the role of faith in education – and unless 'faith schools 'show a keener than average awareness of some of the issues discussed above, they will be failing in a central aspect of their duty.
And though some reverend brethren are for admitting their children to baptism (and offended with me for contradicting it), yet so cannot I, nor shall I dare to do it upon any pretences of their ancestors 'faith, or of a dogmatical faith of these rebellious parents.
RESTON: Yes, well, I always wished I'd had my parents 'faith, but my parents thought of death as a reward, that we were on this earth for a brief span during which we should have faith in the Lord and raise our children, and when our days were over and we had finished our work, we would be rewarded by everlasting life.