Definition of belief
- n. - 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.
- n. - A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
- n. - The thing believed; the object of belief.
- n. - A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of
any class of views; doctrine; creed.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
- n. - The thing believed; the object of belief.
- n. - A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of
any class of views; doctrine; creed.