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faith
CEFRB1
/feɪθ/
noun
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In plain English
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noun
Strong belief in a person, idea, or religion.
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noun
Extra detailA conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
Examples
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Teachers should give their children faith that tomorrow will be brighter and happier.
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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
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- Parts of speech
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- Synonyms
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Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA religious or spiritual belief system.
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
More examples
In contextIf the company can retain its customers' faith
I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Doublet of foy. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief. * Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Ch...