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Belie: Definition and part of speech

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Belie

  1. n. To fill with lies.
  2. n. To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
  3. n. To give a false representation or account of.
  4. n. To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.
  5. n. To mimic; to counterfeit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Belief: Definition and part of speech

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Belief

  1. n. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
  2. n. Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
  3. n. A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
  4. n. The thing believed; the object of belief.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Believe: Definition and part of speech

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Believe

  1. v. i. To think; to suppose.
  2. n. To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.
  3. v. i. To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Belfry: Definition and part of speech

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Belfry

  1. n. The framing on which a bell is suspended.
  2. n. A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
  3. n. A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
  4. n. A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.