FAITH


Meaning of FAITH in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

acted in good faith

The company had acted in good faith .

acting in bad faith

In order to sue, you have to prove that the company was acting in bad faith .

an act of faith (= when you do something that shows you trust someone completely )

The signing of the treaty with Britain was an act of faith.

belief/faith in God

About one-third of the population has no belief in God.

Her faith in God helped her deal with her illness.

faith community

In any faith community there are varying levels of commitment.

faith healing

good faith

The company had acted in good faith .

implicit faith/trust/belief

They had implicit faith in his powers.

sign/show/gesture etc of good faith

A ceasefire was declared as a sign of good faith.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

bad

When we deny autonomy to our 10-year-old, are we too guilty of bad faith ?

School officials can lose this qualified privilege if they act in bad faith or without regard for whether the statements are true.

And some councils are acting in bad faith .

I think a leap of bad faith was made.

Nevertheless, with the passage of time the Soviet side could begin to accuse us of bad faith .

No doubt the missio, with its insistence on proving bad faith , had not been a wholly satisfactory remedy.

They have wanted to use suspicion to root out bad faith without taking responsibility for the implicit grounds of that suspicion.

But there was more to Jeanson than his bad faith , excesses, cruel humour and disconcerting habit of changing his mind.

blind

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Many organizations see this as a blind leap of faith , and rightly so.

Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.

Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!

This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith .

It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.

Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith .

Roof taught me shoulder fakes, which I did on blind faith .

catholic

There was a deep sense of prayer, an opportunity for reflection and an enjoyment in discovering more about our Catholic faith .

My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith .

The couple have not turned their back on their Catholic faith .

Formative influences here were his happy marriage and his staunch commitment to his Catholic faith .

A fervent supporter of Home Rule, he had converted to the Roman Catholic faith .

Over the last year many people around the diocese have been exploring the Catholic faith , with a view to becoming Catholics themselves.

good

We have entered into agreements in good faith .

Let the voters judge who is negotiating in good faith , and whose plan most squares with their idea of reality.

Each partner must deal in partnership affairs with the utmost good faith .

I went down in good faith to the grand jury and testified and obviously the results are not there.

Like the Metropolitan, the collector made her purchase in good faith , never suspecting that the painting was stolen.

That regulation requires contractors to make a good faith effort to hire 50 percent of their work force from San Francisco.

Special offers are quoted in good faith based on information supplied by retailers.

His wife, Soo, understood and received each beating on good faith .

great

This was typical of Stuart - he had great faith in his team.

Without a great faith , we shall lose that war.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

It takes a great patience and faith to rest on the lyrical content and strip the music down to the bones.

Yet there is a great faith and joy in life among these people.

At the same time there was that great act of faith , the blazer.

A fatherless, penniless boy - possessed of great determination, faith , and courage - seeks his fortune.

I have great faith that I shall receive help from you.

little

But to realise he had so little faith in her - that really hurt.

Travelers of little faith , heed my plea.

He will find that in both Bath and Lancashire the electorate has as little faith in Labour's policies as he has.

I was showing little faith , he said.

Work-inhibited students need these messages of acceptance and positive expectation, since they have so little faith in them-selves.

The only problem is that Christians have too little faith to appropriate what is rightly theirs.

With a little faith it could be the biggest comeback since Lazarus.

But unlike other landlords, he had little patience for and little faith in second chances.

religious

None in religious education. 9 - strong religious faith ?

If that happens, religious faith is born.

Walker was baptised a Presbyterian but throughout her life her religious faith grew ever broader in its outlook.

Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.

How we see it is affected by our culture and religious faith .

The effort to inculcate ethical behavior without religious faith seems one of the great fiascoes of the modern age.

Some would see his agnosticism, his awareness of the limits to thought, as the only true basis for religious faith .

The daughter loses her religious faith .

true

Such expressions of piety are written from the highest motives, and are true to the faith in one way.

It had been filly embraced as the true faith .

The true relationship of faith and doubt is closer to that of courage and fear.

All true faith depends on knowledge.

First, they made a clear distinction between those of the true faith and those not of their fraternity.

Both are born of rationalism, and both are equally wrong and finally destructive of true faith .

■ NOUN

community

They understand tongue speaking as a way for individuals within a faith community to pray without the limitations of verbal speech.

healer

I have faith healers coming in twice a week and somehow she's just carrying on.

This guy I know really well suffered from it and went to see this faith healer and made a complete recovery.

So you can see why I was open-minded about the faith healer .

David's aching back is cured by faith healer called GoodNews, and thereafter his soul also undergoes a transformation.

■ VERB

act

The Vendor ought to act in good faith and disclose any such matters.

School officials can lose this qualified privilege if they act in bad faith or without regard for whether the statements are true.

And some councils are acting in bad faith .

If you act in good faith you might get out of this with your skin on.

Such a State should act in good faith so as not to frustrate the objects of the treaty.

Any person who acts in good faith will not, however, be required to make repayment.

based

My father failed to comprehend that his explanations were based as much upon faith as mine.

Much of what we do in teaching is based upon faith in the power of external motivation.

Most nations' note issues are now entirely fiduciary, i.e. based on faith placed in the issuing authority.

break

I broke my faith and smoked one.

keep

Bosses are threatening to axe them - but keeping faith in Eldorado.

But his people had kept the faith pure.

In the meantime they must keep their faith .

He had kept faith with the Old Man and brought them home.

He was my husband, and I, wretch that I am, could not keep faith with him.

lose

Exports are lower, household spending is weakening and businesses show signs of losing faith in their investment plans.

By 1932, millions of people had lost all faith and hope-in the nation, in the capitalist system, in themselves.

That and the fact that it lost faith in the nearest thing to a charismatic it had had since Rose Fox.

Carter himself, as one part of his hardening attitude toward the Soviets, lost faith in the treaty.

I lost my faith when my parents died.

By the end of May, she had lost faith that it would ever stop.

No wonder the population lost faith in the national currency.

But consumers should not lose faith , King said.

place

It lacked resources, acted without vigour, and placed too much faith in Railtrack.

Ultimately, Whitman places his faith in sheer being.

In his vain way, he placed the same faith in jungles that earlier whites had put in cathedrals or steam ships.

From the start, it has placed its faith in Unix.

So people have to place great faith in the stories.

But the underlying tendency is to place faith in the police process.

The only recovery that the strategists are placing any real faith in at the moment is that of the United States economy.

Under the circumstances, however, there was not a man who cared to place absolute faith in mere machinery.

put

He put his faith in the genius of individuals.

The unfortunate crew of Tai Ki had put their faith in several coats of tung oil, to no effect.

More importantly, it put paid to public faith in the League.

Can she put her faith in the people who oversaw her career before?

Other species put their faith in bribery.

Nevertheless, we are asked by psychoanalysis to put our faith in reason in place of affects.

So, like hundreds of others, he put his faith in a franchise.

All of her deepest, oldest instincts told her it was crazy to put her faith in any man.

restore

Given the recent events in Orkney and elsewhere, promoting social work as a caring profession must restore faith in its activities.

But no, here to restore your faith is Sen.

It was his chief aim to restore the nation's faith in the presidency.

Along the way, she touched lives, inspired hope and restored faith in public service.

Your kindness and sincerity really did restore my faith in human nature.

If we had lost hope, the desert dawn would restore our faith .

Help restore my faith in women All letters answered Photo appreciated.

I had to restore my faith in myself.

show

Exports are lower, household spending is weakening and businesses show signs of losing faith in their investment plans.

Peter was starting to show faith in me.

Newark and Sherwood District Council showed their faith with a substantial grant towards the project.

I was showing little faith , he said.

And in being part of that process you have to show good faith .

To show his good faith , White even gives Blue an advance of ten fifty-dollar bills.

The indications are that shareholders will show faith in Mr Hintz and defeat the resolutions.

What I try to do in this book is to show that faith is reasonable.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an article of faith

But the idea is practically an article of faith among Republicans elected in the 1990s.

It was an article of faith to Be There, with or without the goods.

It would be an article of faith with him to believe that.

One must accept it as an article of faith, sufficient unto itself, for all time.

That is an article of faith for him.

When only seeing is believing the unseen reproductive anatomy of the female can not be an article of faith.

blind faith/prejudice/obedience etc

Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.

I followed his commands with blind obedience, never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.

It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.

Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.

Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!

This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith.

in bad faith

In order to sue, you have to prove that the company was acting in bad faith.

And some councils are acting in bad faith.

In Anisminic, Lord Reid gave the following examples: It may have given its decision in bad faith.

School officials can lose this qualified privilege if they act in bad faith or without regard for whether the statements are true.

leap of faith

For my taste, there are a few too many leaps of faith required.

For this the Middle East needs a leap of faith.

If not, some franchise will have to take a leap of faith.

It encompasses both the art of spin doctoring and also our fragile human need and ability to make huge leaps of faith.

It would take only a minor leap of faith, a moment of transcendence, to believe that Christine Ashdown stared back.

Privatization would be an untested leap of faith.

The change is also so unprecedented that it necessitates a genuine leap of faith.

These reforms, untested by pilot evaluations, represent a leap of faith.

pin your hopes/faith on sth/sb

Duregar pinned his hopes on Dwarven determination to keep the army safe.

He seems to pin his hopes on it.

Ministers are pinning their hopes on a big spending Christmas this year to give the High Street and struggling businesses a boost.

Stores, pinning their hopes on a brighter Christmas, were cheerful.

This year it is pinning its hopes on an 8% uplift in passenger growth to around the 82m mark.

Those who pin their hopes on highly specified, short range solutions may or may not get it right.

Treacy is pinning his hopes on Derry again falling victim to a goal famine of crisis proportions.

put your faith/trust/confidence in sb/sth

Can she put her faith in the people who oversaw her career before?

Events that happen previously show us that Atticus is a person that we can put our trust in.

He put his faith in the genius of individuals.

None the less, geophysicists continue to look, continue to put their faith in ghosts of a sort.

Others put their faith in camphor.

She was putting her trust in the wrong people again.

The Profitboss puts his trust in his people.

The unfortunate crew of Tai Ki had put their faith in several coats of tung oil, to no effect.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

After what she's been through, I can understand why she's lost faith in the legal system.

Godparents agree to educate their godchild in the practice of the Christian faith .

He's a man of deep religious faith .

He had great faith in her judgement, and consulted her about everything.

He places a great deal of faith in people's honesty.

In spite of all that has happened, somehow she has held onto her faith .

Instead of celebrating their religious faith , they are forced to conceal it for fear of reprisals.

It was her faith in God that helped her survive the long years in prison.

Most of the island's population belong to the Islamic faith .

My mother's total faith in God always amazed me.

Nothing could shake his faith in God.

People of all faiths are welcome in this building.

The center welcomes people from all faiths.

the Jewish faith

The judge's decision shook her faith in the legal system.

The only reason I stayed in my marriage was because my faith in religion sustained me.

The tensions are growing between members of different faiths.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By faith they grow in understanding and insight.

First, it will act as a safeguard against today's widespread and unnecessary breakdown of faith .

Given their generally bad state of health and care, slaves turned both to faith and to magic for healing.

He mistrusted the rich, and frequently proclaimed his faith in the people.

I have not much faith in the League, nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government.

Instead of being human and down-to-earth, faith becomes a fragrant, concentrated essence.

This shows the important difference between subjectivism in faith and in doubt.

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