Believed vs Suspected - What's the difference?
believed | suspected |
(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 :
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
(label) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
Of something or one believed to be of cause or at fault.
:Bring in the suspected vandal.
(suspect)
As verbs the difference between believed and suspected
is that believed is (believe) while suspected is (suspect).As an adjective suspected is
of something or one believed to be of cause or at fault.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
Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}
