Antonym: distrust, doubt, incredulity, insincerity, suspicion. Similar words: relief, believe, believe in, relieve, die for, in brief, briefly, bell. Meaning: [bɪ'liːf] n. 1. any cognitive content held as true 2. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed.
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181) People with a strong spiritual or philosophical belief system are more likely to remain healthy.
182) But it is not immediately obvious how to write a similar argument against the notion of justified belief.
183) Nicolson was always adamant in his belief that his films did not encourage drug-taking.
184) The Activist Confederations were to be associate members who were to disseminate the belief in corporatism throughout the community.
185) His good fortune in surviving subsequent assassination attempts increased his belief in his divine protection.
186) Such a deeply mistaken belief can only come from a citizen of a country with a disciplinarian attitude to politics.
187) They are wrong for this country's future and contrary to this party's belief in decentralised wage bargaining.
188) The statistics beggar belief.
189) Just as no one can be forced into belief,(www.Sentencedict.com) so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud
190) Belief provides spiritual warmth, comfort and easiness. If you are a religious believer, you tend to feel more peaceful, satisfying and happy. Dr T.P.Chia
191) She had a basic and abiding belief in democratic systems.
192) The media are dull beyond belief because of the heavy censorship.
193) Many of the letters to the editor expressed the belief that the two men were innocent.
194) Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. Christopher Hitchens
195) There is a very pervasive belief that it is research in theoretical and applied linguistics which provides the solutions.
196) Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%),[sentencedict.com] great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
197) How archaeologists set about trying to demonstrate belief in supernatural powers and an afterlife is the subject of Chapter 10.
198) But running through all these was the belief that an advanced state could not be run without a bureaucracy.
199) Untold are the reaches of his barbarities, uncounted the number of his treacheries, beyond belief the depravity of his practices.
200) Contrary to popular belief, the Australian desert is often full of wildlife.
201) Contrary to popular belief, cold weather does not make you ill.
202) They have been slashed and burned and damaged beyond belief.
203) He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. Sigmund Freud
204) But, contrary to popular belief, they are not at all analogous to tape recorders.
205) Unitarianism, a tolerant and loosely-defined system of belief, had attracted Coleridge since his Cambridge years.
206) Belief is not a superstition or a religious faith. It is what you think and believe with conviction but has room for doubt. Dr T.P.Chia
207) Belief is visionary - you can see in your belief what the eye cannot see. Dr T.P.Chia
208) At the same time, I feel, no one should be too over-awed by Famlio's own belief that they're all-powerful.
209) Anne said nothing but as the months passed, it was increasingly difficult to resist the beauty of belief.
210) Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia