(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
(3) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(4) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(5) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(6) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
(7) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
(8) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(9) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
(10) He restated his belief that it was in the national interest to remain in the EU, and said he was "confident" he could secure a successful renegotiation of Britain's relationship that could be put to the public.
(11) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
(12) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
(13) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(14) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
(15) It is our belief that the reproductive and maternal capabilities of the colony-born females were adversely affected by the practice of removing neonates from their mothers at weaning and raising them with age-mates.
(16) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(17) The definition of midwife is given as midwives trained in a community setting to assist in delivery within the confines of accepted cultural beliefs.
(18) It has arisen from semantic errors, and a belief in ischaemia for which there is no scientific evidence.
(19) Many well-meaning female leadership development programmes share this belief, teaching women to negotiate, network and make decisions “like a man”.
(20) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
Credence
Definition:
(n.) Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.
(n.) That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence.
(n.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.
(n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.
(v. t.) To give credence to; to believe.
Example Sentences:
(1) No true evangelical ought to be tempted to give such tales any credence whatsoever, no matter how popular they become,” Johnson wrote.
(2) Moreover, the close similarity between this neurotoxic syndrome in experimental animals and the clinical picture witnessed in Canadian victims of mussel poisoning lends further credence to the assumption that this poisoning incident was caused by an interaction between the domoate molecule and kainate receptors in the human central nervous system.
(3) These results, which took into account several potential confounders including cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure, lend credence to the hypothesis that silica exposure increases the risk of lung cancer, and suggest the possibility of an effect on stomach cancer.
(4) In a bid to give credence to his drug war, his team exaggerates and invents data.
(5) These data give some credence to a direct role of immune aggregates in rheumatoid arthritis articular collagenous tissues in disease pathogenesis.
(6) This suggests that SHA to 0.02 Hz should be given more credence, since it appears to be critical for diagnosing more extensive lesions.
(7) Data are presented that lend credence to the speculation that Br may have a hitherto unexpected function in reproduction.
(8) The findings of our flow cytometry study may indeed lend credence to the view that all hyperparathyroidism represents a four-gland hyperfunction although this does not support as a consequence routine subtotal parathyroidectomy but should stimulate further inquiry into the pathogenesis of primary hyperparathyroidism.
(9) Using environmental concentration data presently available from Poland (especially for air), the paper will estimate human exposures, will point out research and monitoring needs, and hopefully, will lend credence to the concept that environmental policies and risk reduction strategies will be most effective if the Total Human Exposure Concept is used as the guiding scientific principle in risk assessment and management programs.
(10) Our study adds credence to the hypothesis that pesticides and EMF are leukaemogenic agents, together with benzene.
(11) Perhaps our geriatric globetrotters give credence to the age-old saying (of unknown origin) "Running water never freezes."
(12) These pathologic changes lend credence to the hypothesis that the precorneal tear film may be a source of immunoglobulin that becomes deposited within the stroma.
(13) The same profile in the normal surface epithelium lends credence to the belief that these tumors are derived from this epithelium.
(14) The claims had credence, because even before the billions from Sky TV and the Premier League's commercial revolution, bungs were indeed proved to have been paid.
(15) The fact that the more controversial sensory integrative procedures elicited comparable gains when compared with the more widely recognized operant method lends credence to the viability of sensory integrative methods.
(16) It is a generation since Whitehall in general, and the business department in particular, gave any credence to the possibility of successful public enterprise.
(17) These observations lend credence to the theory that one mechanism by which testosterone may regulate GnRH secretion is by increasing the synthesis of POMC in the arcuate nucleus.
(18) The demonstration of an EGF-induced increase in kinase activity of an internalized vesicle fraction lends credence to the hypothesis that EGF-induced endocytosis of the receptor is of physiological significance in the response of cells to this ligand.
(19) These observations indicate that the time constant for the increase in ME content induced by ECS resembles the time constant for the appearance of the clinical benefits by ECT and may give credence to the possibility that the ME increase may participate in the antidepressive action of ECS.
(20) The presence of team owner Jeffrey Lurie at Smith's workout for the team has lent credence to such claims.