believe
verb (used without object)
to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.
believingly
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a word derived from
believe.
Example Sentences
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For Mr. Horne I take your testimony gladly and believingly.
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert
Let then your supplications be addressed to your Father in heaven;—pray humbly, believingly, perseveringly, for wisdom and aid, then may you expect to be blessed.
From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Whittelsey, Mrs. A. G.
But, whilst the superstitious shook their heads, the Princess clung desperately and believingly to the hope that the text had brought her.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Boreham, Frank
We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander
When Mildred answers him with, "This will not be," we could accept, believingly, were only the sense of doom what her reply brought with it.
From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell
