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lore (oh) and faith (iou)


lore (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: lar 'teaching, lesson']
knowledge or information about a subject, for example Nature or Magic, that is not written down but is passed from person to person
::According to local lore, a ghost still haunts the castle.

faith (iou)



faith noun & verb. ME.

A. noun.
I. Confidence, belief.
Confidence, reliance, belief esp. without evidence or proof. (Foll. by in.) ME.
J. H. Newman To have faith in God is to surrender oneself to God. Encounter Citizens who have lost faith in government and almost in democratic institutions too.
b. Belief based on testimony or authority. M16.
T. H. Huxley The absolute rejection of authority..the annihilation of the spirit of blind faith.
What is or should be believed; a system of firmly-held beliefs or principles; a Religion. ME.
C. McCullough Though she abandoned her faith for Paddy, she refused to adopt his in its stead. A. Storr Communism,..although not a Religion, is certainly a faith.
Theology. Belief in the doctrines of a Religion, esp. such as affects character and conduct. LME.
Swift Faith is an entire Dependence upon the Truth, the Power, the Justice, and the mercy of God. R. D. Laing We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held.
b. The spiritual apprehension of divine truth or intangible realities. LME.
E. M. Goulburn Faith..the faculty by which we realize unseen things.
The power to convince; authority, credibility. LME-E19.
b. Attestation, confirmation, assurance. LME-M18.
II. Fidelity.
A pledge, a solemn promise. ME-L17.
Robert Watson Jane, here I geue to thee my faythe and truthe..I wyll marrye thee.
The duty of fulfilling a trust or promise; allegiance, obligation. ME.
W. Phillip The Lords..took their oaths of faith and allegiance unto Don Philip.
The fulfilment of a trust or promise; fidelity, loyalty. ME.
Evelyn Persons of great faith to his Majesty's cause.
Phrases: act of faith (a) = AUTO-DA-Fe; (b) an action demonstrating (religious) faith. article of faith: see ARTICLE noun 9. bad faith treachery, intent to deceive. breach of faith (an act of) insincerity or treachery. break faith, break one's faith break one's word; be disloyal. by my faith arch. truly (in asseverations). confession of faith: see CONFESSION 7. Defender of the Faith: see DEFENDER. explicit faith: see EXPLICIT adjective. give faith to believe in, give credence to. good faith honesty of intention, sincerity. i' faith arch. = in faith below. implicit faith: see IMPLICIT 2. in faith arch. truly (in asseverations). keep faith, keep one's faith keep one's word; be loyal. on faith on trust. on the faith of relying on the Security of. pin one's faith on, pin one's faith to: see PIN verb. put one's faith in = pin one's faith on s.v. PIN verb. the faith the true Religion.
Comb.: faith cure, faith curer, (US) faith curist, faith-healer, faith-healing: acting by faith and prayer, not drugs or Other conventional medicine.
B. verb intrans. (foll. by in, on) & trans. Believe, give credit to. LME-E17.
Faithist noun & adjective (a) noun a member of a sect whose Religion is based on a text containing supposed revelations and on angelic Communications; (b) adjective of or pertaining to this sect: L19.
faithworthy adjective (arch.) worthy of belief, trustworthy M16.