Definition of Belief

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.
2.(Theol.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
3.The thing believed; the object of belief.
4.A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
Ultimate belief
a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition.
- Sir W. Hamilton.


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