belief
any cognitive content held as true
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,061 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,639 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- any cognitive content held as true
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed also: impression, feeling, notion, opinion his impression of her was favorablewhat are your feelings about the crisis?
belief in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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We had no united thought, no common belief as to what was national wisdom.
The Purchase Price · Emerson Hough · Chapter 1
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Wherever the belief in a man's guilt is but slight, his defender finds willing listeners.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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He was not free, however, from a belief in the significance of dreams as portending important events.
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters · Abraham Lincoln · Chapter 1
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But his specialty, his triumph, his glory, is a memory of faces, so prodigious as to exceed belief.
The Lerouge Case · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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A contemporary has described him as being rather short and heavy set in figure, of great frontal development, and vain beyond belief.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction · 20-66 Petronius Arbiter · Chapter 1