faithed
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[edit]- IPA(key): /feɪθd/, /feɪθt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪθd
Adjective
[edit]faithed (comparative more faithed, superlative most faithed)
- (obsolete) Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
- 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 2, scene 1:
- Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think, / If I would stand against thee, would the reposal / Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee / Make thy words faithed?
- Having faith of a specified quality or type.
- 1604, Hugh Broughton Hugh Broughton, An aduertisement of corruption in our handling of religion To the Kings Majestie[1], Of Malachie:
- ...Ezra cometh from Babel to reforme matters: as mariages with infideles: and such, fit for be∣ginning a new comon weale: So Malachy speaketh nothing of the Temple, but of maintenance for the Levites, & of strange faithed wiues, and all, for matters fit for a new be∣ginning comon weale...
- 2012 September 16, londonranger, “Very Happy Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur”, in QPR Report Message Board[2], retrieved 2016-12-02:
- to those Jewish faithed brethren QPR fans of which Mike and myself are two, for the year, and myself apologise[sic] to anyone whom I have hurt (sinned) during the past year.
- 2015 September 6, Dan Rather, “Jimmy Carter is a man the founding fathers would recognize”, in Mashable[4], retrieved 2016-12-02:
- As a Texan I knew the smell well. It was an aroma not all that unexpected of Southern "Good Ole' Boys", but it didn't square with reports that Carter was a deep-faithed Southern Baptist who taught Sunday School and was a tee-totaler.