What is "beliefe"

Usage examples of "beliefe".

First, to imprint in their minds a beliefe, that those precepts which they gave concerning Religion, might not be thought to proceed from their own device, but from the dictates of some God, or other Spirit.

Full easie was for her to haue beliefe,Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe,And by long triall of the inward griefe,Wherewith imperious loue her hart did vexe,Could iudge what paines do louing harts perplexe.