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UK
/fˈeɪθfəl/
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[ US /ˈfeɪθfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfeɪθfəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- any loyal and steadfast following
ADJECTIVE
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not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend
he remained faithful to his wife -
steadfast in affection or allegiance
years of faithful service
faithful employees
we do not doubt that England has a faithful patriot in the Lord Chancellor -
marked by fidelity to an original
a faithful copy of the portrait
a faithful rendering of the observed facts
a close translation
How To Use faithful In A Sentence
- While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr Dombey and Son
- During the last year, two-thirds had remained faithful to a single partner.
- For his part Ken remained faithful to the evidence as he saw it, and to truth when it could be discerned.
- Love for others, concern for justice and the poor are not so much a question of social morals as the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality because, through priestly ministry, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is accomplished, in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator. Pope on the Essential Elements of Priestly Ministry
- Fr Benjamin blesses the faithful with the Most Holy Eucharist. Oxford Corpus Christi Procession 2009
- The image is generally a thing of beauty with colours brightly and faithfully rendered.
- We speak of faithful, and unfaithful portraits.
- Donnelly's PNAC report -- a blueprint followed faithfully by the Bush Administration -- openly yearned for a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the American people into adopting PNAC's global militarist agenda wholesale. Undefined
- Nor were the escorts there to admonish me for asking a rude question of the partying faithful, or to protect the paying customers from the prying media.
- I hope that my faithful advice will not be bewrayed to my prejudice? Kenilworth