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Grammar : Noun
Spell : feyth-fuhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪθ fəl



Definition of faithfulness

Origin :
  • c.1300, "full of faith," also "firm in allegiance," from faith + -ful. Meaning "true to the facts" is from 1520s. The noun sense of "true believers" is from 1550s. Related: Faithfully; faithfulness. Old Faithful geyser named 1870 by explorer Gen. H.D. Washburn, Surveyor-General of the Montana Territory, in reference to the regularity of its outbursts.
  • noun devotion
Example sentences :
  • We should help him to retain their affection and faithfulness.
  • Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
  • From your day down to this, the world has been the better for your faithfulness.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Faithfulness was the only virtue he required of Hieronymus Andreae.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • But there was his faithfulness, and he went back to be betrayed yet a third time.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • This faithfulness was a quality of the clay that composed him.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • Think you her faithfulness to him is the constancy of a woman to her lover?
  • Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The faithfulness of the eunuch has its parallel in that of the old negro slave.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • Still it was hers, awarded to her because of keenness of brain and faithfulness of action.
  • Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
  • And yet he would have sworn by the faithfulness of his old friend and hunting companion.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • The excellence of the recipes consists in their simplicity and faithfulness to details.
  • Extract from : « Sandwiches » by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer

Synonyms for faithfulness

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