faith

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Strong belief or trust in someone or something.

   I have faith that everything will work out in the end.

2. 2
   noun

   Belief in a god or in a religion.

   They lost their faith but not their morality.

3. 3
   noun

   A particular religion or system of religious belief.

   People of many different faiths live in the city.

4. 4
   noun

   Loyalty to a person, cause, or promise.

   He acted in good faith to keep his word.

Common collocations

• faith healing Noun + noun

From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. 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 rech…

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