Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual FacultiesDivision (I) Formation of Ideas
Section V. Results of Reasoning
484. Belief.
CONVICTION, persuasion, convincement, plerophory [rare], self-conviction; certainty [See Certainty]; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression (idea) [See Idea]; surmise [See Supposition]; conclusion (judgment) [See Judgment].
TENET, dogma, principle, persuasion, views, way of thinking; popular belief (assent) [See Assent].
firm -, implicit -, settled -, fixed -, rooted -, deep-rooted -, staunch -, unshaken -, steadfast -, inveterate -, calm -, sober -, dispassionate -, impartial -, well-founded- -belief, – opinion &c.; uberrima fides [L.].
DOCTRINE, system of opinions, school, articles, canons; article -, declaration -, profession- of faith; tenets, credenda, creed, credo, thirty-nine articles (orthodoxy) [See Theology]a; gospel, gospel truth; catechism; assent [See Assent]; propaganda (teaching) [See Teaching].
CREDIBILITY (probability) [See Probability].
count -, depend -, calculate -, pin one’s faith -, reckon -, lean -, build -, rely -, rest- upon; cast one’s bread upon the waters; lay one’s account for; make sure of.
make oneself easy -about, – on that score; take on -trust, – credit; take for -granted, – gospel; allow -, attach- some weight to.
KNOW, – for certain; be in the know [slang]; have -, make- no doubt; doubt not; be -, rest- -assured &c. adj.; persuade -, assure -, satisfy- oneself; make up one’s mind.
CONFIDE IN, believe in, put one’s trust in; give one credit for; place -, repose-implicit confidence in; take one’s word for, take at one’s word; place reliance on, rely upon, swear by, regard to.
THINK, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow [archaic], ween [archaic], fancy, apprehend; have -, hold -, possess -, entertain -, adopt -, imbibe -, embrace -, get hold of -, hazard -, foster -, nurture -, cherish- -a belief, – an opinion &c. n.
view as, consider as, take as, hold as, conceive as, regard as, esteem as, deem as, look upon as, account as, set down as; surmise [See Supposition].
get -, take- it into one’s head; come round to an opinion; swallow (credulity) [See Credulity].
PERSUADE; cause to be believed &c. v.; satisfy, bring to reason, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring -, win- over; indoctrinate (teach) [See Teaching]; cram down the throat; produce -, carry- conviction; bring -, drive- home to.
FIND CREDENCE, go down, pass current; be received &c. v., be current &c. adj.; possess -, take hold of -, take possession of- the mind.
under the impression; impressed -, imbued -, penetrated- with.
CONFIDING, trustful, suspectless [obs.], unsuspecting, unsuspicious, void of suspicion; credulous [See Credulity]; wedded to.
BELIEVED &c. v.; accredited, putative; unsuspected, trusted, undoubted.
worthy of -, deserving of -, commanding- -belief, – confidence; credible, reliable, trustworthy, to be depended on; satisfactory; probable [See Probability]; fiducial, fiduciary; persuasive, impressive.
DOCTRINAL, relating to belief.
- Experto credite.—Vergil
- Fata viam invenient.
- Justitiæ soror incorrupta Fides.
- Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.—Prior
- Stands not within the prospect of belief.—Macbeth
- Tarde quæ credita lædunt credimus.—Ovid
- Vide et crede.
- One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.—Wordsworth
- Faith, that lodestar of the ghost.—Masefield
- Nothing is so firmly believed as that we least know.—Montaigne
- Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.—Emerson