good faith

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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.

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Compare bad faith.

Origin of good faith

First recorded in 1890–95

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Related Words

pledge, promise, troth, word

Examples from the Web for good faith

Contemporary Examples

She added that Koch Industries had “good-faith concerns we broached with CPI” that remained unanswered.
Corporate Counterattack
Laura Colarusso
April 18, 2011

Historical Examples

By some the sincerity of Murray's loyalty and good-faith were even credited.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745
Mrs. 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 Flood
William Morris

Idioms and Phrases with good faith

good faith

see under in bad faith.

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