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93961 Etymology dictionary, p. disloyal (adj.).2
… quality; faithful; honorable; law-abiding; legitimate, born in wedlock," from Latin legalem, from lex "law" (see legal ). Sometimes also "not true to one's obligations …
93962 Etymology dictionary, p. disloyalty (n.).2
… quality; faithful; honorable; law-abiding; legitimate, born in wedlock," from Latin legalem, from lex "law" (see legal ). Since c. 1600 especially "violation of allegiance …
93963 Etymology dictionary, p. Edda (n.).2
… Irish faith "poet," Welsh gwawd "poem," Old English woþ "sound, melody, song," Latin vates "seer, soothsayer;" see wood (adj.)).
93964 Etymology dictionary, p. edify (v.).2
… in faith," from Old French edefiier (12c., Modern French édifier ) "build; install; teach, instruct (morally)," from Latin aedificare "to build, construct," in Late Latin …
93965 Etymology dictionary, p. expiation (n.).2
… pius "faithful, loyal, devout" (see pious ).
93966 Etymology dictionary, p. Fay.2
fem. proper name, in some cases from Middle English fei, Old French fei "faith," or else from fay "fairy."
93967 Etymology dictionary, p. faithful (adj.).1
faithful (adj.)
93968 Etymology dictionary, p. faithful (adj.).2
… of faith" is from late 14c. (Church Latin used fideles in same sense). Related: Faithfully; faithfulness. Old Faithful geyser named 1870 by explorer Gen. Henry …
93969 Etymology dictionary, p. faith (n.).1
faith (n.)
93970 Etymology dictionary, p. faith (n.).2
… -13c., faith, feith, fei, fai "faithfulness to a trust or promise; loyalty to a person; honesty, truthfulness," from Anglo-French and Old French feid, foi "faith, belief …
93971 Etymology dictionary, p. faith-healer (n.).1
faith-healer (n.)
93972 Etymology dictionary, p. faith-healer (n.).2
Also faith healer, attested by 1874; from faith + healer. Faith-curer is from 1883.
93973 Etymology dictionary, p. faithless (adj.).2
c. 1300, "unbelieving," from faith + -less. Meaning "insincere, deceptive" is mid-14c. Related: Faithlessly; faithlessness .
93974 Etymology dictionary, p. false (adj.).2
… true faith, not in accord with Christian doctrines," from Old French fals, faus "false, fake; incorrect, mistaken; treacherous, deceitful" (12c., Modern French faux …
93975 Etymology dictionary, p. feal (adj.).2
"faithful," 1560s, not found in Middle English but apparently from Old French feal "faithful, loyal, true, sincere," collateral form of feeil, from Latin fidelis "loyal" (see fidelity ).
93976 Etymology dictionary, p. fealty (n.).2
… overlord; faithfulness," from Latin fidelitatem (nominative fidelitas ) "faithfulness, fidelity," from fidelis "loyal, faithful" (from PIE root *bheidh- "to trust …
93977 Etymology dictionary, p. fiancee (n.).2
… fidus "faithful" from the same root as fides "faith" (from PIE root *bheidh- "to trust, confide, persuade"). It has all but expelled native betrothed. The English verb …
93978 Etymology dictionary, p. fideism (n.).2
… on faith, 1885, from Latin fides "faith" (from PIE root *bheidh- "to trust, confide, persuade") + -ism. Blount's "Glossographia" (1656) has fidicide "Faith-destroyer; a breaker …
93979 Etymology dictionary, p. fidelity (n.).2
… fidelitas ) "faithfulness, adherence, trustiness," from fidelis "faithful, true, trusty, sincere," from fides "faith" (from PIE root *bheidh- "to trust, confide, persuade …
93980 Etymology dictionary, p. fine (adj.).2
… , genuine; faithful, constant." From late 14c. as "expertly fashioned, well or skillfully made," also, of cloth, "delicately wrought." Of weapons or edges, "sharp" from …