faithful 
faith·ful (fāt̸h′fəl)
adjective
- keeping faith; maintaining allegiance; constant; loyal faithful friends
- marked by or showing a strong sense of duty or responsibility; conscientious faithful attendance
- accurate; reliable; exact a faithful copy
- Obsolete full of faith, esp. religious faith
Etymology: ME
the faithful
- the true believers (in any specified religion)
- the loyal adherents or supporters
faithful
modif.
faithful
n.
faithful implies steadfast adherence to a person or thing to which one is bound as by an oath or obligation a faithful wife; loyal implies undeviating allegiance to a person, cause, institution, etc. which one feels morally bound to support or defend a loyal friend; constant suggests freedom from fickleness in affections or loyalties a constant lover; staunch (or stanch) implies such strong allegiance to one's principles or purposes as not to be turned aside by any cause a staunch defender of the truth; resolute stresses unwavering determination, often in adhering to one's personal ends or aims resolute in one's decision
Converse of object
- remain: The important point is to remain faithful to the primary source material.
- summon: Nothing on the outside tells you what on earth to expect inside no minarets, no bells to summon the faithful.
- stay: Stay faithful to the one who made the universe.
- rally: Here, in Gray's Inn Road, Irving rallied the faithful.
Modifies a noun
- servant: It is encouraging to find faithful servants of our Lord.
- follower: Throughout his life Bowyer remained a faithful follower of the Baptist church.
- reproduction: Please note; the printed page will not be a faithful reproduction of the web page.
- hound: In vain was all Llywelyn's grief: he could not bring his faithful hound to life again.
- companion: In short, a faithful companion that wants to be by your side.
- remnant: The churches will continue to empty, until there is just the faithful remnant, and most of them will be over forty-five!
Used with adjective complement
- remain: For the most part, the game has remained faithful to the legendary movie.
- stay: The High Kings of Tara The Gaels or Celts stayed faithful to the goddess through her sacred marriage to the king.
Noun used with modifier
- gop: Several state insurance is dealing with can afford the the gop faithful.
- ye: Rutter O come, all ye faithful - Wade, arr.
- O: Same Tone Let us rejoice, O ye faithful, for the annual memorial of Botolph is come again.
- thou: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
- party: Then, to lift the spirits of the party faithful: Oh, What a Friend we have in Gordon.
Modifying Another Word
- remarkably: Those that know say that the Wachowskis ' adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's original graphic novel is remarkably faithful.
Preposition: in
- prayer: Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Preposition: of
- prelature: The faithful of the Prelature join by a contractual commitment rather than by vows.
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord shall find him.
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in 116 much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
His lord said unto him,Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will maketheerulerover many things: enter thou intothejoy of thy lord.
I have forgot much,Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee,Cynara! in my fashion.
I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things asthey have mirrored themselves inmy mind.
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle-class unit.
O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Translations, like wives, are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive.
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