faithfulness
part of speech
noun (faithfulness, uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Being loyal and true to someone, keeping your promises. tree →
2) (church, Bible) God's faithfulness means God keeps his promises and never leaves his people; Christians try to show faithfulness to God. tree →
3) Staying true to a partner in marriage. tree →
4) Being exact and accurate: «faithfulness to the original book». tree →
sense in the lessons
In religion lessons faithfulness is a fruit of the Spirit and a quality of Ruth and of Noah; hymns praise «Great is thy faithfulness». In stories the faithful dog Greyfriars Bobby shows faithfulness. Phrases: «God's faithfulness», «faithfulness in marriage», «faithfulness to a friend».
examples
- The dog's faithfulness touched everyone. tree →
- Ruth showed faithfulness to Naomi. tree →
- The hymn «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» praises God. tree →
- Faithfulness means keeping your promises. tree →
- The film was praised for its faithfulness to the book. tree →
- Married people promise faithfulness to each other. tree →
- Pinocchio discovers the thieves and, as a reward for faithfulness, he regains his liberty. tree →
note
Uncountable. Adjective: faithful; adverb: faithfully («Yours faithfully» ends formal UK letters). Similar: loyalty. Opposite: unfaithfulness, betrayal.
In the corpora
- And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
- Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in.
- And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the LORD.
- Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as Thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
- For the word of the LORD is upright; and all His work is done in faithfulness.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «faithfulness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.