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ON FAITH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does on faith mean?
• ON FAITH (adverb)
The adverb ON FAITH has 1 sense:
1. with trust and confidence
Familiarity information: ON FAITH used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With trust and confidence
Context example:
we accepted him on faith
Context examples
He took the laboratory proofs on faith, and his intense power of vision enabled him to see the reactions of chemicals more understandingly than the average student saw them in the laboratory.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But he had caught hints of such music from the books, and he accepted her playing largely on faith, patiently waiting, at first, for the lifting measures of pronounced and simple rhythm, puzzled because those measures were not long continued.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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