(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.
Godless
Definition:
(a.) Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(2) UCL, the godless place in Gower Street, which had been set up, in large part, as a home for the spiritually uncomfortable, fitted Jacobson like a glove.
(3) Claiming the title for the most godless places were the student enclaves of Brighton and Norwich, where 42% said they had no religious affiliation, closely followed by Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Rhondda in south Wales, where community leaders said unemployment and a breakdown in community values had loosened religion's hold.
(4) To paraphrase Stephen Colbert , the Kings are at this point nothing more than giant, marauding, godless hockey machines.
(5) The constitutional process gave the conspiracy of a secret liberal-communist alliance a philosophical basis: there is no difference between liberal secularism and communist atheism, because both are used to persecute the church; there is no difference between liberal democracy and communist authoritarianism because both are used to impose a godless minority’s will on “ordinary Poles”.
(6) What would happen if they set up a "godless congregation" that met to celebrate life, with no hope of the hereafter?
(7) In August 1990, when Iraq annexed Kuwait and threatened Saudi security, he offered to raise an army of Arab Afghan veterans to fight the "godless" Saddam.
(8) So these unsparing public accounts of dying are perhaps best read as a tentative kind of prayer for the godless: a lesson in being able when the time eventually comes to leave our children with grace, put right some wrongs, and to accept what we cannot change.
(9) A man who now regards the Conservative party as de facto socialist was once a godless Trotskyist, a member of the International Socialists (the forerunners of the Socialist Workers party), who were committed to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ state.
(10) humility, irritating to some, might play better with the godless public.
(11) In fact, the prospects for Falconer's bill, and for the overwhelming majority who agree with it, might be brighter if more of its religious opponents were as openly indifferent to evidence, argument and testimony that has moved the most godless to pity.
(12) It confirms our place as perhaps the most godless country, the least "churched", in the industrialised world, setting us apart from the US, obviously, but also from much of continental Europe.
(13) We are asunder, a predicament perhaps best expressed by the Daily Mail's Robert Hardman being photographed in a cathedral calling people "godless".
(14) Abe promotes himself as bridge between Japan’s past and its future, vaulting from Japan’s glorious traditions, over the post-1945 years of weakness, socialism and godlessness, to a beautiful, brave new Japan people by beautiful, brave new Japanese,” Cucek said.
(15) Following the short tour, the pair will be holing up at London's Bloomsbury Theatre for the seemingly annual Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People, a Christmas celebration for rationalists that in the past has featured contributions from Jarvis Cocker , Ricky Gervais and professor Richard Dawkins.
(16) This California playground of Pacific surf, sunshine and sleek boutiques has, if you believe one side of the argument, just plunged a dagger into Christmas, gutted tradition and pushed America down a slippery slope to godlessness.
(17) Their vision, he says, is "a godless gathering in every town, city or village that wants one".
(18) I can imagine the message being something like: “See what the godless Americans are doing to us; come help us fight them, because actually they’re not doing very much at all and you probably won’t die if you join in.” Our lukewarm efforts may actually be helping them draw replacement Emwazis into their deluded, disgusting version of what the world should look like – probably not the best course of action.
(19) The Sunday Assembly may be godless, but a churchgoer who stumbled through the wrong door would find much they recognised.
(20) Julius arrived an hour early, just to be sure of a place at the service, which is described by its organisers as "a godless congregation that meets … to hear great talks, sing songs and generally celebrate life".