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Beliefful
Beliefful Be*lief"ful, a.
Having belief or faith.
DisbeliefDisbelief Dis*be*lief", n.
The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is
fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is
not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of
belief.
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the
nature of the thing. --Tillotson.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own
littleness that disbelief in great men. --Carlyle.
Syn: Distrust; unbelief; incredulity; doubt; skepticism. --
Disbelief, Unbelief. Unbelief is a mere failure to
admit; disbelief is a positive rejection. One may be an
unbeliever in Christianity from ignorance or want of
inquiry; a unbeliever has the proofs before him, and
incurs the guilt of setting them aside. Unbelief is
usually open to conviction; disbelief is already
convinced as to the falsity of that which it rejects.
Men often tell a story in such a manner that we regard
everything they say with unbelief. Familiarity with the
worst parts of human nature often leads us into a
disbelief in many good qualities which really exist
among men. Make-belief
Make-belief Make"-be*lief`, n.
A feigning to believe; make believe. --J. H. Newman.
Misbelief
Misbelief Mis`be*lief", n.
Erroneous or false belief.
Ultimate beliefUltimate Ul"ti*mate, a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L.
ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last,
superl. from the same source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and
cf. Ultimatum.]
1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last;
final.
My harbor, and my ultimate repose. --Milton.
Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive
to this our ultimate happiness. --Addison.
2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended
toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last
result; final.
Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of
thought which we can not rationally contradict.
--Coleridge.
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further
division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an
ultimate constituent of matter.
Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under
Organic.
Ultimate belief. See under Belief.
Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or
that toward which a series tends, and which it does not
pass.
Syn: Final; conclusive. See Final.
Meaning of Belief from wikipedia
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- mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, emotions, knowledge, etc.—to oneself, and to others, and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions...
- folkloristics, folk belief or folk-belief is a broad genre of folklore. This category includes a wide variety of behaviors, expressions, and beliefs. Examples of...
- study of the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Much debate in epistemology centers on four areas: (1) the philosophical...
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