Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faithful \Faith"ful\, a.
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Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
You are not faithful, sir.
--B. Jonson. -
Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.
The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him.
--Deut. vii. 9. -
True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, by ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant.
So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he.
--Milton. -
Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation.
It is a faithful saying.
--2 Tim. ii. 11.The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed.
Syn: Trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious; trustworthy. -- Faith"ful*ly, adv. - Faith"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a faithful manner. 2 (context US English) A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended using an honorific.
WordNet
adv. in a faithful manner; "it always came on, faithfully, like the radio" [syn: dependably, reliably] [ant: unfaithfully, unfaithfully, unfaithfully]
Wikipedia
"Faithfully" is a song by the band Journey, and the second single from their album Frontiers. The song is a power ballad written by Jonathan Cain. It peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the band their second consecutive top-twenty hit from Frontiers. Despite featuring no chorus, it has gone on to become one of the band's most recognizable hits and has enjoyed lasting popularity.
"Faithfully" is an eighth-season episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the 160th episode overall.
Faithfully is the eleventh album released by Johnny Mathis. It is the ninth original studio album recorded by the singer (two hit singles compilations Johnny's Greatest Hits and More Johnny's Greatest Hits were among his album releases to this point).
Faithfully may refer to:
- Faithfully (Faith Evans album), 2001
- Faithfully (Johnny Mathis album), 1959
- Faithfully (Jovit Baldivino album), 2010
- "Faithfully" (song), a song by Journey
- Faithfully (TV series), a 2012 Philippine drama series
- "Faithfully" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Faithfully is the third studio album by American singer Faith Evans, released by Bad Boy Records in the United States on November 6, 2001 (see 2001 in music). Featuring production by Sean Combs, The Neptunes, Cory Rooney, Michael Angelo Saulsberry, Mario Winans, it peaked at number 14 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the RIAA. The album spawned five total singles including Can't Believe featuring Carl Thomas, You Gets No Love featuring P. Diddy & Loon, the Billboard Top 40 hit, I Love You, and Alone in This World, respectfully. This was the last album of Faith Evans as Faithfully was recorded for Bad Boy Records before her split in 2003.
Faithfully is the debut album of Jovit Baldivino, the first grand champion of Pilipinas Got Talent. The album was released on July 2010 under Star Records in cooperation with Sony Music Philippines. The album debuted at number one with approximate sales of 10,000 units, becoming one of the best sales week for an album in the Philippines for 2010. It stayed at number one for seven consecutive weeks, selling in excess of 4,000 copies each week, bringing his total of 60,000 copies and received a triple platinum recognition for this album.
The 12-track album consists of six songs and non-vocal "minus one" versions of them, including the songs he performed on the said contest: " Faithfully" by Journey (audition) and " Too Much Love Will Kill You" by Queen (finals).
Faithfully is a Filipino drama series created and written by RJ Nuevas, under the direction of Michael Tuviera and produced by GMA Network. This series headlines Maxene Magalona, Mike Tan and Marc Abaya as the lead characters with Michelle Madrigal, Isabel Oli, Vaness del Moral and Isabelle Daza. This series premiered on June 18, 2012, replacing Broken Vow on GMA Afternoon Prime block and June 21, 2012 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV.
The series centers on the life of Stella, who uncovers her husband's imprudence with one of her closest friends.
It ended on October 5, 2012 and ran for 16 weeks with 80 episodes overall. Magdalena will replace Faithfully on its timeslot.
Usage examples of "faithfully".
Older than Adams by nearly fifteen years, he served faithfully as a translator and expert source of information.
You must know that all my earlier love-songs were the breathings of ardent passion, and though it might have been easy in aftertimes to have given them a polish, yet that polish, to me, whose they were, and who perhaps alone cared for them, would have defaced the legend of my heart, which was so faithfully inscribed on them.
She had a standing order with her Bangladeshi cabbie now, who was faithfully at the entrance to the Bellevue Apartments every morning at three fifty-five.
Saint Augustine introduces the Erythrean Sibyl, who, he says, faithfully foretold the Life of the Saviour.
The merits of these worthies are here faithfully related, and will be instantly recognised by any Etonian of the last thirty years.
For days I refused to come downstairs for either school or supper, holing up in my room with the goodies Ma still faithfully provided.
Then the young man shouted into the gosport to those who had remained faithfully in the engine room feeding the furnaces with tree-wrack, telling them to cast tar into the flames as the princess had counseled them.
I shall not conceal, as I go on, the weaknesses I could not quite conquer, but they always passed from me soon and the happier frame of mind stayed by me faithfully.
So the promise was made, and very faithfully did Jim keep it, for many a time when I have wanted him to go fishing or rabbit-snaring, he has remembered that it was his day for Miss Hinton, and has tramped off to Anstey Cross.
One of these groups will stick faithfully to the principle of equal rights and to the spirit of the true Jeffersonian faith.
Upon this, Jones began to beg earnestly to be let into this secret, and faithfully promised not to divulge it.
Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Livers in Willoughby County, Pennsylvania, had registered to vote-something Livers used to do faithfully, but did no longer since Miranda Sharifi had turned eighty percent of civilization back into nomads who followed neither game nor herds, but merely the sun.
The two representatives of the Mikado then left their places, and, crossing over to where the foreign witnesses sat, called us to witness that the sentence of death upon Taki Zenzaburo had been faithfully carried out.
A select committee would have probably examined some of the clerks of the respective offices, that they might certainly know whether any letters or papers had been suppressed, whether the extracts had been faithfully made, and whether there might not be papers of intelligence, which, though proper to be submitted to a select and secret committee, could not, consistently with the honour of the nation, be communicated to a committee of the whole house.