noun feeling sure that something is true ○ His firm belief in the power of law. ○ Her strong belief in God. □ it is my belief I believe ○ It’s my belief that the problems have been grossly exaggerated. □ to the best of my belief as far as I know ○ To the best of my belief, no one else has seen this letter. □ beyond belief incredible ○ That she did not know that there were drugs in the parcel is quite beyond belief.
be•lief´
n. [OE. bileafe, bileve; cf. AS. geleáfa. See Believe.]
1. Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as belief of a witness; the belief of our senses. “Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance.
Reid.”
2. (Theol.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. “No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth.
Hooker.”
3. The thing believed; the object of belief. “Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men.
Bacon.”
4. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. “In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation.
Hooker.” Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton. Syn. — Credence; trust; reliance; assurance; opinion.
1. Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as belief of a witness; the belief of our senses. “Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance.
Reid.”
2. (Theol.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. “No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth.
Hooker.”
3. The thing believed; the object of belief. “Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men.
Bacon.”
4. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. “In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation.
Hooker.” Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton. Syn. — Credence; trust; reliance; assurance; opinion.
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