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Believe

verb

(past & past part. believed; pres. part. believing)

Accept as true; take to be true. "We didn't believe his stories from the War" , "She believes in spirits"

Judge or regard; look upon; judge. Synonyms: conceive, consider, think. "I believe her to be very smart" , "I think that he is her boyfriend" , "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

Be confident about something. Synonym: trust.

Follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer.

Credit with veracity. "Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?"

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"Believe" Quotes from Famous Books

... mind the story Martha had brought in from the street. "He has heard it," she said to herself, "but he does not believe it, and he comes to comfort me. I cannot tell the truth without ...

— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith

... now—after his three years of Europe? He had done so what he liked with her—which had seemed so then just the meaning, hadn't it? of their being "engaged"—that he had made her not see, while the absurdity lasted (the absurdity of their pretending to believe they could marry without a cent), how little he was of metal without alloy: this had come up for her, remarkably, but afterward—come up for her as she looked back. Then she had drawn her conclusion, which was one of the many that Basil ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... in any degree common. I have expressly said that a bank at the proper depth would give rise to an atoll, which could not be distinguished from one formed during subsidence. I can, however, hardly believe in the existence of as many banks (there having been no subsidence) as there are atolls in the great oceans, within a reasonable depth, on which minute oceanic organisms could have accumulated to the depth of many ...

— Coral Reefs • Charles Darwin

... a pleasant journey, I was encouraged to believe that the traveller might be enabled to quit the world without the ordinary death-struggle and convulsion, and with his expiring faculties so refreshed, that he would give his last directions with a clear brain and a ...

— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

... into which she then sunk, she was soon awakened by a noise, which seemed to arise within her chamber; but the silence, that prevailed, as she fearfully listened, inclined her to believe, that she had been alarmed by such sounds as sometimes occur in dreams, and she laid her ...

— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe

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