单词 | beliefful |
释义 | belieffuladj. Having faith in something, especially religion; believing.Apparently unattested between the early 13th and mid 16th centuries and again between the late 16th and later 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > [adjective] > having faith leaffulOE ileaffulOE belieffula1200 faithfulc1384 trowinga1400 faitheda1413 believing1442 fiable1483 professant1621 professing1651 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 25 (MED) Þe rihtwise and þe bileafule and þe godfrihte men. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 73 (MED) Heo sculen beon bi-lefulle. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke i. f. xxiii A mynde beliefull and ready to obey. 1575 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure (new ed.) I. lvii. f. 249 I take not vpon me to aunswere your divinity, but like her yt is more fearefull of euill than beleful of good, do humblie beseech you to cease to speake to me. 1880 J. M. D. Meiklejohn in W. Shakespeare Hamlet (new ed.) 144/2 Credent, belief-ful. (Credulous is hardly the meaning.) 1940 D. S. Lewis Tennant's Philos. Theol. i. 54 Not pure cognition but impure human beliefful cognition is what we actually have. 1971 G. Urang Shadows of Heaven iv. 167 The kind of imaginative response required by certain images of fantasy may well provide an analogy for the beliefful relation to what is ultimate in reality. 2003 R. Stone in M. Boss et al. Éthique Sociale et Socialisme Religieux (2005) i. 91 Tillich's belief-ful realism and Niebuhr's Christian realism bound them together to support religious socialism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1200 |
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