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Definition: Faithfulness |
FaithfulnessNoun1. The quality of being faithful. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faithfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: FaithfulnessSynonym: fidelity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: infidelity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Probity | Constancy; faithfulness; Adjective: fidelity, loyalty; incorruption, incorruptibility. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Faithfulness |
| English words defined with "faithfulness": constancy ♦ Lunaria biennis ♦ Possessive case. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "faithfulness": audit conclusions ♦ Ermine ♦ Fawn ♦ Hoe ♦ Leather ♦ Morocco ♦ Palsy, Paradise, Pump ♦ Rabbit ♦ Scales, Swearing ♦ Yew Tree. (references) |
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Clever | God tries our faith so that we may try His faithfulness. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Confucius | Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. |
| Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. | |
St. Augustine | By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. |
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| "Faithfulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Faithfulness" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 61 | 43,149 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "faithfulness": check of faithfulness. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
great is thy faithfulness | 63 |
faithfulness | 27 |
faithfulness great lyrics thy | 11 |
faithfulness god | 10 |
faithfulness great hymn thy | 3 |
faithfulness sermon | 3 |
faithfulness great song thy | 2 |
faithfulness great midi thy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "faithfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | besnikëri (adherence, allegiance, devotion, faith, fidelity, loyalty). (various references) | |
Arabic | جدير بالثقة (dependable, reliable, responsible, trustworthy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | честност (fair dealing, fairness, faith, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, loyalty, probity, rectitude, sportsmanship, straightforwardness, straightness, truth), вярност (adherence, adhesion, allegiance, constancy, devotion, faith, fidelity, justness, loyalty, troth), достоверност (authenticity, originality). (various references) | |
Chinese | 从一而终. (various references) | |
Czech | vìrnost (adherence, allegiance, constancy, devotion, fidelity, loyalty, troth, truth, truthfulness), přesnost (accuracy, closeness, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, minuteness, niceties, nicety, precision, punctuality, rightness, strictness), loajálnost. (various references) | |
French | fidélité (faith), loyauté. (various references) | |
German | treue (adherence, allegiance, constancy, devotedness, devotion, faith, fidelity, loyalty, staunchness, troth). (various references) | |
Greek | πιστότητα (accuracy, fidelity, stanchness, troth, trueness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ"ימ ות (fidelity, reliability, trustworthiness), אמת (certainty, honesty, sooth, truth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hûségesség. (various references) | |
Italian | fedelt (accuracy, accurateness, adhesion, allegiance, care, caution, constancy, dependability, exactness, fidelity, frequency, loyalty, precision, troth), lealt (faith, honesty, loyalness, loyalty), esattezza (accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, preciseness, strictness, truth). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 克明 (conscientiousness, detailed, diligence, elaborate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た"し" (alone, away from home, birthday, brief message, brief note or letter, hour hand, sincerity, unaided), し"じつ (honesty, reality, sincerity, truth), "くめい (conscientiousness, country name, detailed, diligence, elaborate), りちぎ (conscientiousness, honesty, integrity), とくじつ (sincerity), ちゅうし" (balance, center, core, devotion, emphasis, heart, information, innermost feelings, loyal retainer, loyal subject, making a report, moderate earthquake, pivot), ちゅうじつ (fidelity). (various references) | |
Korean | 념 (Belief). (various references) | |
Manx | ynrickys (correctness, directness, downrightness, faith, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, integration, probity, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, truth, truthfulness), jeerid (alignment, candour, directness, frankness, honesty, ingeniousness, sincerity, straightness, strictness), jeelysaght (devotion, faith, staunchness, steadfastness), firrinys (actuality, authenticity, devotion, devoutness, fidelity, maxim, sincerity, truth, unaffectedness, veracity), cruinnys (precision; rotundity, thoroughness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aithfulnessfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fidelidade (abidance, accuracy, adherence, adhesion, allegiance, consistency, fidelity, fidget, loyalty, near-sighted, trustiness), sinceramente (heartily, like father like son, plainness, sincerely, truly), lealdade (adhesion, constancy, devotion, loyalty, sportsmanship, trustiness). (various references) | |
Romanian | fidelitate (attachment, constancy, exactness, faith, fealty, fidelity, reality, retentiveness, staunchness, tenacity, troth), loialitate (fairness, faith, fealty, fidelity, honesty, loyalty, sincerity, sportsmanship, uprightness), credinţã (allegiance, belief, communion, confession, confidence, constancy, conviction, creed, denomination, faith, fidelity, hope, illusion, loyalty, persuasion, religion, standpoint, trust), cinste (appreciation, ceremony, chastity, consideration, credit, crown, esteem, fairness, faith, fame, Favor, favour, fealty, gift, glory, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, morality, probity, repute, respect, straight, treat, truth, uprightness, virtue). (various references) | |
Russian | верность (allegiance, constancy, faith, fidelity, loyalty, troth, trustiness). (various references) | |
Scottish | dìlse (a faithful one, relationship). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | verodostojnost (credibility, plausibility), poštenje (fair dealing, fairness, honesty). (various references) | |
Spanish | fidelidad (abidance, allegiance, caninity, consistency, fidelity, reliability, troth, trust, trustworthiness). (various references) | |
Swedish | trohet (adherence, allegiance, faith, fidelity, loyalty, truth). (various references) | |
Turkish | tamlık (accuracy, complement, completeness, entirety, exactitude, exactness, nicety, plenitude, preciseness, precision, thoroughness, truth, wholeness), sadakât (allegiance, constancy, devotion, faith, fidelity, loyalty, obedience, singleness, troth, trueness, trustiness, truth), inanç (affiance, belief, confidence, conscience, conviction, credence, credo, creed, cult, dogma, faith, opinion, opinions, persuasion, positiveness, reliance, religion, tenet), iman (belief, credo, creed, faith, religion), içtenlik (cordiality, fairness, heartiness, ingenuousness, sincereness, sincerity, singleness, trueness, unaffectedness, warmth), güvenilirlik (authenticity, credibility, reliability, responsibility, solidity, stability, trustworthiness), doğruluk (accuracy, authenticity, candor, candour, correctitude, correctness, directness, evenness, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, honesty, integrity, justice, justness, preciseness, precision, prig, probity, rectitude, right, righteousness, rightness, sincerity, soundness, straightforwardness, straightness, trueness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, validity, veracity, Verity), dürüstlük (conscientiousness, correctitude, correctness, directness, erectness, evenness, fairness, honesty, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, probity, rectitude, righteousness, sincereness, sincerity, squareness, straightforwardness, straightness, truth, uprightness, veracity), bağlılık (adherence, adhesion, allegiance, attachment, cementation, cohesion, cohesiveness, constancy, correlation, devotion, faith, fidelity, homage, interdependence, interdependency, loyalty, obedience, singleness, subordination, troth). (various references) | |
Ukranian | чесність (fair dealing, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, sincerity, straightforwardness, straightness, uprightness), вірність (adherence, adhesion, allegiance, attachment, constancy, faith, fidelity, loyalty, troth, validity), достовірність (authenticity, reasonableness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính chính xác (exactitude, exactness, precision, stringency, truthfulness), lòng trung th nh (faith, fidelity, loyalty), lòng chung thuỷ tính trung thực. (various references) | |
Welsh | ffyddlondeb (fidelity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Lamentations Chapter 3, Verse 23 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | HETH novae diluculo multa est fides tua |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Heth. Y kney the morutid; myche is thi feith. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | They are new every morning; great is your good faith. |
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| Language | Lamentations Chapter 3, Verse 23 |
| Bulgarian | Те се подновяват всяка заран; голяма е Твоята вярност. |
| Cebuano | Sila ginabag-o sa matag-buntag; daku ang imong pagkamatinumanon. |
| Chinese | 每 早 晨 這 都 是 新 的 ． 的 實 、 極 其 廣 大 。 |
| Croatian | Oni se obnavljaju svako jutro: tvoja je vjernost velika! |
| Danish | hans Nåde er ny hver Morgen, hans Trofasthed stor. |
| Dutch | Cheth. Zij zijn allen morgen nieuw, Uw trouw is groot. |
| Finnish | se on joka aamu uusi, ja suuri on hänen uskollisuutensa. |
| French | Elles se renouvellent chaque matin. Oh! que ta fidélité est grande! |
| German | sondern sie ist alle Morgen neu, und deine Treue ist groß. |
| Haitian Creole | Tankou solèy la ki leve chak maten konsa tou l'ap toujou kenbe pawòl li. |
| Hungarian | Minden reggel meg-megújul; nagy a te hûséged! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | selalu baru setiap pagi sungguh, TUHAN setia sekali! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada tiap-tiap pagi adalah ia itu baharu, dan besarlah setia-Mu! |
| Italian | esse son rinnovate ogni mattina, grande è la sua fedelt . |
| Korean | 이 것 이 아 침 마 다 새 로 우 니 주 의 성 실 이 크 도 소 이 다 |
| Maori | E hou tonu ana ratou i tenei ata, i tenei ata; he nui tou pono. |
| Modern Greek | Ανανεονονται εν ταις πρωιαις· μεγαλη ειναι η πιστοτης σου. |
| Norwegian | Den er ny hver morgen, din trofasthet er stor. |
| Portuguese | renovam-se cada manhã. Grande é a tua fidelidade. |
| Rumanian | ci se knoiesc kn fiecare dimineayq. Wi credinciowia Ta este atkt de mare! |
| Russian | пОП П'ОПЧМСЕФУС ЛБЦ"ПЕ ХФТП; ЧЕМЙЛБ ЧЕТОПУФШ фЧПС! |
| Spanish | Nuevas son cada mañana; grande es tu fidelidad. |
| Swedish | Den är var morgon ny, ja, stor är din trofasthet. |
| Thai | เป็นของใหม่อยู่ทุกเวลาเช้า ความสัตย์ซื่อของพระองค์ใหญ่ยิ่งนัก |
| Ukrainian | нове воно кожного ранку, велика бо вірність Твоя! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "faithfulness": faithfulnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "faithfulness": unfaithfulness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "faithfulness": unfaithfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Faithfulness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: failthfulness, faithfullness, fithfulness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-h-i-l-n-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: insufflates. | |
-2 letters: faultiness, fitfulness, flatfishes, insufflate, snuffliest. | |
-3 letters: affluents, faithfuls, faithless, flashiest, halituses, huffiness, insulates, shinleafs, snuffiest, sufflates, unselfish. | |
-4 letters: affluent, alunites, anthesis, elastins, faithful, feastful, fishnets, fistfuls, fistulae, fistulas, flatfish, flatness, flatuses, flushest, fustians, halfness, hasteful, heliasts, hiatuses, huffiest, inflates, insulate, inulases, nailsets, nathless, salients, saltines, shaliest, shanties, sheitans, shinleaf, shuffles, sinuates, snaffles, sniffles, snuffles, sthenias, stiffens, stunsail, sufflate, sulfates, sulfites, unfaiths, unlashes, unshifts, utensils. | |
-5 letters: affines, alunite, antiflu, ashiest, aunties, elastin, eluants, enlists, entails, entasis, fainest, falsest, falsies, fastens, fateful, fatless, fatness, fetials, fiestas, finales, finless, fishnet, fissate, fistful, fistula, fitness, flashes, flaunts, flushes, fulness, fusains, fustian, haffets, haffits, halites, halitus, hansels, hantles, haslets, hastens, hateful, hatfuls, hatless, hatsful, hausens, heliast, hessian, hisself, hitless, hustles, infests, inflate, infuses, inhales, inhauls, instals, insults, inulase, issuant, lashins, leftish, listens, luniest, lushest, luteins, nailset, nasties, salient, salines, salties, saltine, saltish, salutes, selfish, sensual, sestina, shantis, sheilas, sheitan, sheltas, shiatsu, shuffle, silanes, silents, silenus, sinuate, sithens, slainte, sleuths, snaffle, snathes, sniffle, snuffle, sthenia, stiffen, stifles, sulfate, sulfite, sultans, sunfast, sunfish, sustain, taffies, tahsils, taluses, tansies, tenails, thulias, tinfuls, tinsels, tisanes, tissual, tushies, unfaith, unleash, unseals, unseats, unshift, utensil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-h-i-l-n-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: faithfulnesses, unfaithfulness. | |
+4 letters: unfaithfulnesses. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a i t h f u l n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0069 0074 0068 0066 0075 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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