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overbelief
[over- 1 e, 18, 29 c.]
a. A belief which determines other beliefs.
b. A belief surviving from the past.
c. Belief in more than is warranted by the evidence or in what cannot be verified; also, such belief beyond that which is customary among adherents of a particular faith or sect.
1897W. James Will to Believe p. xiii, The most interesting and valuable things about a man are his ideals and over-beliefs. 1900J. Morley Oliver Cromwell i. iii. 51 Faith in the literal construction of the word was pushed to an excess..resembling a true superstition or over⁓belief. 1901W. W. Peyton in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 838 Some of them are over-beliefs, preserving the traditions of their great past. 1920‘W. S. Palmer’ Christianity & Christ 153 We have these ‘over-beliefs’; and we even count men poor who are without them. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Nov. 1011/1 All is well, or will be well, when the new over-beliefs dominate. 1961M. Laski Ecstasy xxviii. 295 Whatever may be the ultimate source of these beliefs, which I shall call primary overbeliefs, it is generally accepted that their expression must at least partially be a temporal, local and natural matter. 1971E. Carpenter Cantuar vi. iv. 340 He [sc. Archbishop Tait] was sensitive to the contemporary agnosticism of such as Tennyson, and was convinced that this could not be combated by insisting on the ‘over⁓belief’ characteristic of the protagonists of the Oxford Movement. 1973M. Paffard Inglorious Wordsworths ii. xii. 162 Their overbeliefs—their own assumptions or conclusions about the significance (if any) of the experiences they described. |