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believe in

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Verb1.believe in - have a firm conviction as to the goodness of something; "John believes in oat bran"
believe - accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"
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? believe in
vi +prep obj
God, ghosts → glauben an (+acc)
(= have trust in) promises → glauben an (+acc); method also → Vertrauen haben zu; to believe in oneself → an sich selbst glauben; the boss/his mother still believes in him → der Chef/seine Mutter glaubt immer noch an ihn; please believe in me → bitte haben Sie Vertrauen zu mir; he doesn’t believe in medicine/doctors → er hält nicht viel von Medikamenten/Ärzten
(= support idea of) to believe in something → (prinzipiell) für etw sein; he believes in getting up early → er ist überzeugter Frühaufsteher; he believes in giving people a second chance → er gibt prinzipiell jedem noch einmal eine Chance; I don’t believe in compromises → ich halte nichts von Kompromissen, ich bin gegen Kompromisse


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The disseminators of this tale are the accusers whom I dread; for their hearers are apt to fancy that such enquirers do not believe in the existence of the gods.
Apology by Plato View in context
To me the convalescent would it now be suffering and torment to believe in such phantoms: suffering would it now be to me, and humiliation.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
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