GOOD FAITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good faith mean? 

• GOOD FAITH (noun)
  The noun GOOD FAITH has 1 sense:

1. having honest intentions

  Familiarity information: GOOD FAITH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD FAITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having honest intentions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

good faith; straightness

Context example:

doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants

Hypernyms ("good faith" is a kind of...):

honestness; honesty (the quality of being honest)

 Context examples 

He was invited on good faith.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In token of his good faith, Mr. Ford turned two of his pockets inside out. A strip of cardboard fell to the floor from one of them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They are both written in good faith, I have no doubt, and without any collusion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The poor fellow had temptations enough from without and from within, but he withstood them pretty well, for much as he valued liberty, he valued good faith and confidence more, so his promise to his grandfather, and his desire to be able to look honestly into the eyes of the women who loved him, and say All's well, kept him safe and steady.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One by one several of the passengers offered me gifts, which they pressed upon me with an earnestness which would take no denial; these were certainly of an odd and varied kind, but each was given in simple good faith, with a kindly word, and a blessing, and that strange mixture of fear-meaning movements which I had seen outside the hotel at Bistritz—the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There were letters from women seeking to know him, and over one such he smiled, for enclosed was her receipt for pew-rent, sent as evidence of her good faith and as proof of her respectability.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was very gravely and decorously ordered, and on a sound system; with an appeal, in everything, to the honour and good faith of the boys, and an avowed intention to rely on their possession of those qualities unless they proved themselves unworthy of it, which worked wonders.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)