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.
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Origin of good faith
First recorded in 1890–95
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Examples from the Web for good faith
She added that Koch Industries had “good-faith concerns we broached with CPI” that remained unanswered.
By some the sincerity of Murray's loyalty and good-faith were even credited.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745|Mrs. ThomsonI 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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