Word Finder - believed

definition

To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)

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I believe there are faeries.

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To accept that someone is telling the truth.

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Why did I ever believe you?

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To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

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After that night in the church, I believed.

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To opine, think, reckon

I never believed it anyway.

I still believed in people, loved them, and sacrificed myself.

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

Not one of them believed that for a minute.

She sagged against a counter, hoping he believed her.

I'm beyond help, Rhyn.  I've always believed you could be all that Kris and Andre and your father were not.  Your half-demon nature makes you better prepared than all of them combined.

The fool had really believed he could bargain with Darkyn and the Dark One!

And, if first impressions meant anything, as Dean believed they did, this woman was sincerely distraught over her husband's disappearance.

I never would have believed a woman could be so kind hearted and so suspicious at the same time.

It was believed that no Ancient would ever take a mate, because none ever have.

He believed, or at least suspected, that Miss Sullivan and I had deliberately stolen the bright thoughts of another and imposed them on him to win his admiration.

She almost believed Katie's words about Gabriel always loving her.

I almost believed we had half a chance.

The doctors still said they expected him to wake up any day, but Carmen was skeptical about how much they believed it.

She really believed this was the last time they'd be together.

There was a period when intellectuals believed and spoke openly of the idea that the "breeding" of the "unfit" should be limited.

She believed it could be, but did not understand it.

Lives have been lost because we've either not been believed or someone was too late following up.

Neither of them believed her father would let him live.

The people of Egypt were very proud; for they believed that they were the first and oldest of all nations.

Count Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed Murat's emissary and retired, leaving Bagration's division exposed.

But all along, they believed they would ultimately prevail—and not just win the war, but also do something epic that would change the course of history for all time.

People overwhelmingly believed the future would be better, and they were right!

Since the publication of "The Story of My Life" in the Ladies' Home Journal, Mr. Anagnos has made a statement, in a letter to Mr. Macy, that at the time of the "Frost King" matter, he believed I was innocent.

It was good that Cora had faith in Gabriel when he was losing death dealers who no longer believed in him.

If he had believed in prenuptial agreements, he might have thought her attitude was a good idea.

You never believed anything I said even though I never lied to you.

Helene laughed, "that Dolokhov was my lover," she said in French with her coarse plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other word, "and you believed it!

He believed this so firmly that others, looking at him, were persuaded of it too and did not refuse him either a leading place in society or money, which he borrowed from anyone and everyone and evidently would not repay.

I think her story had enough of a ring of truth that I believed her.

He.d come to keep an eye on her and, allegedly, to help his brothers on the Council, though not even he believed he had a decent bone in his body.

If he didn't have some tootsie with him and I didn't know him for the skunk he is, I might have believed him.

I know it was selfish, but I felt emotions I never believed existed and I didn't want them to end… Things started to snowball from there.

If you believed that was a fact we wouldn't be sitting here talking about it.

Neither believed her cheery pronouncement.

Josh believed, as she did, that the man should be the ultimate decision-maker.

He had finally found a woman he could trust, and now he believed she had betrayed him.

She told him she wasn't, and he said he believed her.

If only she believed that.

He believed that the jealousy of Russian aggrandizement and the dread of Russian power were absurd exaggerations.

The clergy naturally stoutly defended the powers which they had long enjoyed and believed to be rightly theirs.

The play seemed so real, we almost forgot where we were, and believed we were watching the genuine scenes as they were acted so long ago.

Science and faith together led him to try to make his way into the soul which he believed was born in Laura Bridgman as in every other human being.

From information he had received the evening before, from the sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked.

Jenny didn't look as if she believed their story but Dean was a detective so she simply took their statements and refrained from asking embarrassing questions.

It was disturbing to think that he believed she didn't want to be with him.

Until now she would never have believed him capable of such rage.

He believed her now that the baby was gone.

Lori became pregnant when Alex still believed he couldn't father a child.

But then, he had also believed Josh was the father of the child Carmen carried.