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Faithful
//ˈfeɪθ.fl̩// adj, noun
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Adjective
- 1 Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
"My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else."
- 2 Having faith.
"The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church."
- 3 Reliable; worthy of trust.
"My servant is very faithful."
- 4 Consistent with reality.
"I would consider that a very faithful reproduction."
- 5 Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
"They had been faithful to each other all of their married life."
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- 6 Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
- 7 Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
Adjective
- 1 marked by fidelity to an original wordnet
- 2 steadfast in affection or allegiance wordnet
- 3 not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend wordnet
Noun
- 1 The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause. in-plural
"The faithful pray five times a day."
- 2 a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church wordnet
- 3 Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
"Earlier this year, as the recession put a damper on ticket sales, Maxwell said the easy route would have been to go for the tried-and-true old faithfuls."
- 4 any loyal and steadfast following wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.
Etymology 2
From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.
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