Bible Dictionaries
Belief

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(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.

(2):

(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.

(3):

(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

(4):

(n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Belief'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/belief.html. 1828.