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Troth

Belief; faith; fidelity.

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Assurance 76% connected

The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pledge 76% connected

The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between…

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Ringing 76% connected

of Ring

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Affiance 74% connected

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Affiance 74% connected

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

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Betrothal 92% connected

The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Engagement 92% connected

The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plight 92% connected

imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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deixis noun · 78% connection

the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communicatio…

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Illation noun · 78% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Inference noun · 78% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Speech act noun · 78% connection

the use of language to perform some act

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Address noun · 77% connection

the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"

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Affirmation noun · 77% connection

the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

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Animism noun · 78% connection

The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended se…

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Apostasy noun · 78% connection

An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the…

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Apostatize verb · 78% connection

To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to whi…

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Apostle noun · 78% connection

The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first…

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Belief noun · 78% connection

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal…

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Beliefful adjective · 78% connection

Having belief or faith.

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Believe verb · 78% connection

To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

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Bigot noun · 78% connection

A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or d…

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Confess verb · 78% connection

To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

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Confession noun · 78% connection

A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to member…

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Confidence noun · 78% connection

The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.

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Creance noun · 78% connection

Faith; belief; creed.

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Credit noun · 78% connection

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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Creed verb · 78% connection

A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp.…

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Delusion noun · 78% connection

That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

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Doubt verb · 78% connection

To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to t…

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Evidence noun · 78% connection

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

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Faith noun · 78% connection

That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of…

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