good faith
noun
accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
Compare bad faith.
Origin of good faith
First recorded in 1890–95
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Contemporary Examples of good faith
She added that Koch Industries had “good-faith concerns we broached with CPI” that remained unanswered.
Historical Examples of good faith
By some the sincerity of Murray's loyalty and good-faith were even credited.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745Mrs. Thomson
I have seen truth and good-faith and constancy and hope without reward; and five years have worn no whit of that away.
The Sundering FloodWilliam Morris
good faith
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