be·lief /bəˈlif/
相信,確信,信任,信念,認為
Be·lief n.
1. 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.
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.
Syn: -- Credence; trust; reliance; assurance; opinion.
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belief
n 1: any cognitive content held as true [ant: unbelief]
2: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his
impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings
about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his
sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying" [syn: impression,
feeling, notion, opinion]