(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.
Disenchantment
Definition:
(n.) The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clive Palmer told Guardian Australia he did not know if this reflected a move towards his party, or voters’ disenchantment with the government.
(2) The Nuit debout has some aspects of a May 68 for the internet age, but with a major difference: the revolutionary students of half a century ago came of age during the trente glorieuses , the 30 glorious years of postwar economic growth, and wanted to crack open a conservative society; those of 2016 are, on the contrary, the children of 30 years of high unemployment, economic gloom and disenchantment with the way representative democracy works.
(3) Back in the town, Pierre, a pensioner, insisted that local disenchantment with Hollande and the Socialists had been exaggerated, but admitted: "We had such high hopes that even though François Hollande sold himself as Monsieur Normal, he would be more than that.
(4) The transcripts, obtained by New Matilda and provided to Guardian Australia, show: disenchantment among workers with the viability of settling refugees on Nauru fear among staff of an uncontrollable riot, like the one on Manus – where locals “absolutely beat the shit out of large numbers of people and killed a man” the immigration department asked security staff for “anything you’ve got on Save the Children” the information used to sack 10 Save the Children workers was “probability”, not evidence, and “not something you’d rely on in court” the protests Save the Children Staff were accused of fomenting, “would have happened anyway”, and the department does not know if the staff sacked “were the right 10 people”.
(5) Rome in The Great Beauty Released 2013, directed by Paolo Sorrentino Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can’t think of any city so drenched with infatuated love, and yet also a kind of disillusion and disenchantment, as the Rome of Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty .
(6) One in 25 voters spoiled their ballot papers yesterday, amid growing disenchantment with mainstream politics – although turnout was high at 66%.
(7) Signalling disenchantment with the Greek negotiations, the officials voiced deep pessimism that a deal can be struck.
(8) The continuing dissonance inside the educational environment and between education and clinical practice are proposed as contributory factors in the processes that can lead to student frustration and disenchantment.
(9) "My duty is to bring Europe out of its lethargy, to reduce people's disenchantment with it."
(10) The space for independent journalism has been squeezed by four years of disruption, terrorism concerns, a struggling economy, and disenchantment with the media from authorities and the public,” it reports.
(11) A historical overview helps to explain these difficulties, as nurses have tended to accept the views of psychotherapists uncritically, and have used scales developed for clients in counselling with people who are physically ill. Methodological difficulties combined with the results of studies demonstrating low levels of empathic ability in nurses have culminated in disenchantment with this topic.
(12) He said: “The debate is demonstrating that there is growing disenchantment with the over-centralised nature of the British state and the dominance of London and the south-east of England.” Cole said that with the three main British political party leaders now accepting that Scotland ought to have extra powers, the same argument should apply to other parts of the UK.
(13) High stool frequencies in some series led to disenchantment with the straight anastomosis and to the development of various reservoir procedures to increase rectal capacity and thereby reduce frequency.
(14) Everyone accepts that there is disillusionment with politics but nobody seems willing to tackle the old-fashioned ways of doing things that create this disenchantment.
(15) Voters in both states on Tuesday approved amendments legalising the recreational use of marijuana, historic decisions that reflect growing disenchantment across the US with the decades-old "war on drugs".
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The fans can be heard voicing their growing disenchantment with the direction in which the 65-year-old is taking the club.
(17) On the detention centre island of Manus Island and Nauru, refugees report widespread disenchantment after more than three years of detention without trial or charge, and another dashed hope of resettlement.
(18) The poor stone clearance rates reported by the Dornier National Biliary Lithotripsy Study has led to disenchantment with biliary lithotripsy.
(19) After two psychology degrees, a directorship of a Vancouver art centre, and teaching at an "alternative high school" in New Jersey, his knowledge of Estonian and disenchantment with mainstream psychiatry led him to find work at the Baltic desk of Radio Free Europe , the US-funded service that beamed western views – typically not unadjacent to those of the CIA – into eastern bloc states.
(20) That disenchantment led Pakistan to seek Chinese military aid.