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  1. 1. n. word/assent">Assent to a word/proposition">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. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. The thing believed; the object of belief. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. A tenet, or the body of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/tenets">tenets, held by the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/advocates">advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. any cognitive content held as true Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 1. word/assent">Assent to a word/proposition">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. Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance. Reid. 2. (Theol.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker. 3. The thing believed; the object of belief. Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men. Bacon. 4. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation. Hooker. Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton. Syn. -- Credence; trust; reliance; assurance; opinion. Source: webster
  8. 8. A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven andearth. Hooker. Source: adambom
  9. 9. n:100 n. any cognitive content held as true Source: ecdict

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