belief 音标拼音: [bɪl'if]
n . 相信,确信,信任,信念,认为
相信,确信,信任,信念,认为
belief n 1 :
any cognitive content held as true [
ant : {
disbelief },
{
unbelief }]
2 :
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed ; "
his impression of her was favorable "; "
what are your feelings about the crisis ?"; "
it strengthened my belief in his sincerity "; "
I had a feeling that she was lying " [
synonym :
{
impression }, {
feeling }, {
belief }, {
notion }, {
opinion }]
Belief \
Be *
lief "\,
n . [
OE .
bileafe ,
bileve ;
cf .
AS .
gele ['
a ]
fa .
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 .
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Belief admits of all degrees ,
from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance . --
Reid .
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2 . (
Theol .)
A persuasion of the truths of religion ;
faith .
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No man can attain [
to ]
belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth . --
Hooker .
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3 .
The thing believed ;
the object of belief .
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Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools ,
but the talk sometimes of wise men . --
Bacon .
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4 .
A tenet ,
or the body of tenets ,
held by the advocates of any class of views ;
doctrine ;
creed .
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In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation . --
Hooker .
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{
Ultimate belief },
a first principle incapable of proof ;
an intuitive truth ;
an intuition . --
Sir W .
Hamilton .
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Syn :
Credence ;
trust ;
reliance ;
assurance ;
opinion .
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "
belief ":
a belief ,
acceptance ,
acquiescence ,
arrogance ,
article of faith ,
assent ,
assurance ,
assuredness ,
axiom ,
canon ,
certainty ,
certitude ,
cocksureness ,
concept ,
confidence ,
confidentness ,
conviction ,
courage ,
credence ,
credibility ,
credit ,
credo ,
creed ,
dependence ,
doctrine ,
dogma ,
eye ,
faith ,
feeling ,
fundamental ,
hubris ,
idea ,
intuition ,
judgement ,
law ,
maxim ,
mind ,
opinion ,
orthodoxy ,
overconfidence ,
oversureness ,
overweening ,
overweeningness ,
persuasion ,
poise ,
pomposity ,
positiveness ,
precept ,
pride ,
principle ,
principles ,
reliance ,
religion ,
religious belief ,
religious faith ,
security ,
self -
assurance ,
self -
confidence ,
self -
importance ,
self -
reliance ,
sentiment ,
settled belief ,
subjective certainty ,
sureness ,
surety ,
system of beliefs ,
teaching ,
tenet ,
theology ,
tradition ,
trust ,
trustworthiness ,
view BELIEF .
The conviction of the mind ,
arising from evidence received ,
or from information derived ,
not from actual perception by our senses ,
but from .
the relation or information of others who have had the means of acquiring actual knowledge of the facts and in whose qualifications for acquiring that knowledge ,
and retaining it ,
and afterwards in communicating it ,
we can place confidence . "
Without recurring to the books of metaphysicians ' "
says Chief Justice Tilghman ,
4 Serg . &
Rawle ,
137 , "
let any man of plain common sense ,
examine the operations of ,
his own mind ,
he will assuredly find that on different subjects his belief is different .
I have a firm belief that ,
the moon revolves round the earth .
I may believe ,
too ,
that there are mountains and valleys in the moon ;
but this belief is not so strong ,
because the evidence is weaker ."
Vide 1 Stark .
Ev .
41 ;
2 Pow .
Mortg .
555 ;
1 Ves .
95 ;
12 Ves .
80 ;
1 P .
A .
Browne '
s R 258 ;
1 Stark .
Ev .
127 ;
Dyer ,
53 ;
2 Hawk .
c .
46 ,
s .
167 ;
3 Wil .
1 ,
s .
427 ;
2 Bl .
R .
881 ;
Leach ,
270 ;
8 Watts ,
R .
406 ;
1 Greenl .
Ev .
Sec .
7 -
13 ,
a .
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