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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) apophatism (the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not))
S: (n) cataphatism (the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image'))
S: (n) doctrine of analogy, analogy (the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate)
S: (n) cult, cultus, religious cult (a system of religious beliefs and rituals) "devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin"
S: (n) cult (a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false) "it was a satanic cult"
S: (n) ecclesiasticism (religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices)
S: (n) Christianity, Christian religion (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)
S: (n) Unitarianism (a non-doctrinal religion that stresses individual freedom of belief and rejects the Trinity)
S: (n) Hinduism, Hindooism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)
S: (n) Brahmanism, Brahminism (the religious beliefs of ancient India as prescribed in the sacred Vedas and Brahmanas and Upanishads)
S: (n) Jainism (religion founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism; emphasizes asceticism and immortality and transmigration of the soul; denies existence of a perfect or supreme being)
S: (n) Sikhism (the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam)
S: (n) Buddhism (the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth)
S: (n) Taoism, Hsuan Chiao (popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic)
S: (n) Shinto, Shintoism (the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors)
S: (n) Manichaeism, Manichaeanism (a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000)
S: (n) Mithraism, Mithraicism (ancient Persian religion; popular among Romans during first three centuries a.d.)
S: (n) Zoroastrianism, Mazdaism (system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster; set forth in the Zend-Avesta; based on concept of struggle between light (good) and dark (evil))
S: (n) Bahaism (a religion founded in Iran in 1863; emphasizes the spiritual unity of all humankind; incorporates Christian and Islamic tenets; many adherents live in the United States) "Bahaism has no public rituals or sacraments and praying is done in private"
S: (n) shamanism, Asian shamanism (an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans)
S: (n) shamanism (any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes))
S: (n) Wicca (the polytheistic nature religion of modern witchcraft whose central deity is a mother goddess; claims origins in pre-Christian pagan religions of western Europe)