(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you have ~ in someone or something, you feel confident about their ability or goodness.
She had placed a great deal of ~ in Mr Penleigh...
People have lost ~ in the British Parliament.
= confidence
N-UNCOUNT: usu N in n
2.
A ~ is a particular religion, for example Christianity, Buddhism, or Islam.
England shifted officially from a Catholic to a Protestant ~ in the 16th century.
N-COUNT: also no det, usu adj N
3.
Faith is strong religious belief in a particular God.
Umberto Eco’s loss of his own religious ~ is reflected in his novels.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you break ~ with someone you made a promise to or something you believed in, you stop acting in a way that supports them.
If we don’t, we’re breaking ~ with our people!
PHRASE: V inflects
5.
If you do something in good ~, you seriously believe that what you are doing is right, honest, or legal, even though this may not be the case.
This report was published in good ~ but we regret any confusion which may have been caused.
PHRASE: PHR after v
6.
If you keep ~ with someone you have made a promise to or something you believe in, you continue to support them even when it is difficult to do so.
He has made one of the most powerful American films of the year by keeping ~ with his radical principles.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
7.
see also article of ~ , leap of ~