faithful
IPA: fˈeɪθfʌɫ
noun
- (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
- Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
adjective
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- Having faith.
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- Consistent with reality.
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
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Examples of "faithful" in Sentences
- Just like I choose to not give into lustful sinful behaviour so that I remain faithful to my wife.
- Series will remain faithful to the old show, while introducing new recruits to fight alongside the original characters.
- It speaks of the creation of what it calls faithful capital — that kind of social capital that builds trust and capacity for long-term faithful commitment.
- Note, The introducing of a young convert into the communion of the faithful is a very good work, and one which, as we have opportunity, we should be ready to do.
- Hold this thought steadily, affirm it, believe it, expect it, and all the time be faithful, _absolutely faithful_ to the situation in which you are at present placed.
- * - Whether you consider an adaptation like Fight Club, which changed the ending to the author's hearty cries of "I should have done it that way!" as being "faithful" is a matter of debate.
- You'd rather people die than give them health care, you'd rather people starve than give them food, and you'd rather cheat on your wife while stealing tax payers money to go to a foreign country to do it than remain faithful and stay at home doing your job.
- As the countdown to the concert begins, one innocent young man must navigate a minefield of London drug smuggles, New York City brawls and Vegas lap dances to deliver his charge safe and, sort of, sound … all while trying to remain faithful to his med student girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss).
- Love for others, concern for justice and the poor are not so much a question of social morals as the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality because, through priestly ministry, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is accomplished, in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator.
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