Definition
| • | 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. |
| • | A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. |
| • | The thing believed; the object of belief. |
| • | A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. |
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