单词 | over-belief |
释义 | over-beliefn. (a) Belief which goes beyond the evidence; a level of belief and faith beyond what is usually required of members of a certain religion or sect. (b) A belief which determines other beliefs; an overriding belief or guiding principle, frequently arising out of a person's own emotional and spiritual experiences. (c) A belief or superstition surviving from the past. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > overbelief over-belief1862 the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > a belief, dogma, tenet > determining other beliefs over-belief1862 the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > a belief, dogma, tenet > surviving from the past over-belief1862 the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun] > instance of credulity1548 over-belief1862 1862 R. F. Burton City of Saints (ed. 2) 367 He considers over-belief a venial error compared with under-belief. 1897 W. James Will to Believe p. xiii The most interesting and valuable things about a man are his ideals and over-beliefs. 1901 W. W. Peyton in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 838 Some of them are over-beliefs, preserving the traditions of their great past. 1954 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 49 35 Except from the point of view of protecting the reader from over-belief in the results. 1973 M. Paffard Inglorious Wordsworths ii. xii. 162 Their overbeliefs—their own assumptions or conclusions about the significance (if any) of the experiences they described. 1994 Jrnl. Politics 56 540 Kateb ends up as an individualistic humanist, cut from the Jamesian mold and offering his own suggestion for an over-belief based on hope and the sense of inexhaustible potentiality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1862 |
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