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# faithfulness

«faithfulness» in Mova's school dictionary: **Being loyal and true to someone, keeping your promises** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (faithfulness, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Being loyal and true to someone, keeping your promises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#m1)

2) (church, Bible) God's faithfulness means God keeps his promises and never leaves his people; Christians try to show faithfulness to God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#m2)

3) Staying true to a partner in marriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#m3)

4) Being exact and accurate: «faithfulness to the original book». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In religion lessons faithfulness is a fruit of the Spirit and a quality of Ruth and of Noah; hymns praise «Great is thy faithfulness». In stories the faithful dog Greyfriars Bobby shows faithfulness. Phrases: «God's faithfulness», «faithfulness in marriage», «faithfulness to a friend».

### examples

- The dog's faithfulness touched everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#x1)
- Ruth showed faithfulness to Naomi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#x2)
- The hymn «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» praises God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#x3)
- Faithfulness means keeping your promises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#x4)
- The film was praised for its faithfulness to the book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#x5)
- Married people promise faithfulness to each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#x6)
- Pinocchio discovers the thieves and, as a reward for faithfulness, he regains his liberty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: faithful; adverb: faithfully («Yours faithfully» ends formal UK letters). Similar: loyalty. Opposite: unfaithfulness, betrayal.

### In the corpora

- [And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.257/)
- [Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.524/)
- [And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.31/)
- [Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as Thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.119/)
- [For the word of the LORD is upright; and all His work is done in faithfulness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.487/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «faithfulness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faithfulness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.