Faith vs Intention - What's the difference?
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A feeling, conviction, or belief that something is true or real, not contingent upon reason or justification.
A religious belief system.
An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal.
(obsolete) Credibility or truth.
* Mitford
A course of action that a person intends to follow.
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*(Samuel Johnson) (1709-1784) (but see
*:Hell is paved with good intentions .
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
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The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
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(lb) Tension; straining, stretching.
*, I.iii.3:
*:cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].
A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea.
(lb) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
*1732 , (John Arbuthnot),
*:In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts;.
(lb) Any mental apprehension of an object.
(lb) The process of the healing of a wound.
*2007 , Carie Ann Braun, ?Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health ,
*:When healing occurs by primary intention , the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.
(Webster 1913)
In obsolete terms the difference between faith and intention
is that faith is credibility or truth while intention is any mental apprehension of an object.As nouns the difference between faith and intention
is that faith is a feeling, conviction, or belief that something is true or real, not contingent upon reason or justification while intention is a course of action that a person intends to follow.As a proper noun Faith
is {{given name|female|from=English}}.faith
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Alternative forms
* feith, feithe, fayth, faythe, faithe (obsolete)Noun
- Have faith that the criminal justice system will avenge the murder.
- I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
- I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
- The Christian faith .
- He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.
- I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
- the faith of the foregoing narrative
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(English Citations of "faith")Synonyms
* belief, confidence, trust,ignorance, arrogance, conviction * (system of religious belief) religionHyponyms
* (religious belief system) Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Wicca, Eckankar, , Zoroastrianism, New Age, Unitarian Universalism, Jainism, Shinto, LaVeyan Satanism, Scientology, Taoism, Yoruba, Druidry, paganism, Juche, Cao Dai, Confucianism, Spiritism, humanism, Rastafarianism, TenrikyoDerived terms
* Attic faith * bad faith * faithful * faithfully * faithfulness * faith-healer * faithing * faithless * in faith * Punic faithExternal links
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*intention
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(wikipedia intention)Alternative forms
* entention (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Apocryhpha)
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An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments …, Prop. II, p.159:
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