Faith (In the Power of Love)
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noun


(1)   Loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person
"Keep the faith"
"They broke faith with their investors"
(2)   Complete confidence in a person or plan etc
"He cherished the faith of a good woman"
"The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust"
(3)   A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
"He lost his faith but not his morality"
(4)   An institution to express belief in a divine power
"He was raised in the Baptist religion"
"A member of his own faith contradicted him"
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    • 1853 Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth, Chapter XVII,
      "Now, I was called Faith after the cardinal virtue; and I like my name, though many people would think it too Puritan; that was according to our gentle mother's pious desire.
    • 1919 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, Echo Library 2006, ISBN 1406821764, page 90:
      "Faith."
      "No name that - no name that! I can't stomach such a name. Got any other?"
      "No, sir."
      "Don't like the name, don't like it. There's no sneddum to it. Besides, it makes me think of my Aunt Jinny. She called her three girls Faith, Hope and Charity. Faith didn't believe in anything - Hope was a born pessimist - and Charity was a miser. You ought to be called Red Rose - you look like one when you're mad.
 
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