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(118)S: (v) believe (accept as true; take to be true) "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"
(72)S: (v) think, believe, consider, conceive (judge or regard; look upon; judge) "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
(37)S: (v) believe, trust (be confident about something) "I believe that he will come back from the war"
(10)S: (v) believe (follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer) "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too"
S: (n) religion, faith, religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) "he lost his faith but not his morality"
S: (n) faith, trust (complete confidence in a person or plan etc) "he cherished the faith of a good woman"; "the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust"
S: (n) philosophy (any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation) "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
S: (n) fetishism, fetichism (a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish))
S: (n) geneticism (the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically)
S: (n) meliorism (the belief that the world can be made better by human effort)
S: (n) opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought (a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty) "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
S: (n) autotelism (belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification)
S: (n) originalism (the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it)
S: (n) pacifism, pacificism (the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration)
S: (n) religion, faith, religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) "he lost his faith but not his morality"
S: (n) supremacism (the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others) "white supremacism"
S: (n) theory (a belief that can guide behavior) "the architect has a theory that more is less"; "they killed him on the theory that dead men tell no tales"
S: (n) values (beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)) "he has very conservatives values"
S: (n) theological virtue, supernatural virtue (according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues)
S: (n) religion, faith, religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) "he lost his faith but not his morality"