Believed vs Belives - What's the difference?
believed | belives |
(believe)
(label) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 :
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, title= (label) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
(label) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
(belive)
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To remain, stay.
* 1900' (original date: '''1483 ), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, ''The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints :
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To abide, continue.
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon
English words prefixed with be-
As verbs the difference between believed and belives
is that believed is (believe) while belives is (belive).believed
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Verb
(head)believe
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Alternative forms
* beleeve (obsolete)Verb
(believ)- (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
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Usage notes
* The transitive verb believe and the phrasal verb (m) are similar but can have very different implications. ** To “believe” someone or something means to accept specific pieces of information as truth: believe the news'', ''believe the lead witness . To “believe a complete stranger” means to accept a stranger's story with little evidence. ** To “believe in” someone or something means to hold confidence and trust in that person or concept: believe in liberty'', ''believe in God . To “believe in one's fellow man” means to place trust and confidence in mankind. * Meanings sometimes overlap. To believe in'' a religious text would also require affirming the truth of at least the major tenets. To ''believe a religious text might likewise imply placing one's confidence and trust in it, in addition to accepting its statements as facts.Derived terms
* believable * believability * believer * believe in * believe it or not * believe one's eyes * believe you me * disbelieve * unbelievable * unbelieverStatistics
* ----belives
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Verb
(head)belive
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) beliven, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* *Verb
- So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) belive, .Alternative forms
*Adverb
(en adverb)- By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].