believest

Acceptest as fact

Believest is an archaic second-person singular form of believe, used with "thou": Thou believest in God.

The -est ending marks this as Early Modern English, now encountered mainly in the King James Bible, Shakespeare, and period literature.

Modern English uses "you believe" for all second-person forms.

archaic

thou

Archaic second-person pronoun

  • theeSecond-person object, antiquated
  • thyOld possessive pronoun
  • thineYours, archaically

hast · dost · doth · shalt · wilt · art · ye · ere · whence · whither

conviction

certainty

Total absence of doubt

credence · acceptance · persuasion · tenet · principle · credo · affirmation · assertion · doubt · skepticism

faith

religion

System of spiritual belief

worship · prayer · theology · divinity · creed · doctrine · scripture · gospel · salvation · soul

literary

scripture

Sacred religious writings

Shakespearean · Elizabethan · sonnet · soliloquy · apostrophe · rhetoric · sermon · proclamation · testament · epistle

Opposites
cognitive acceptance

believestdoubt

Lack of firm belief

disbelieve · deny · distrust · reject · mistrust

religious faith

believestunbeliever

One lacking faith

infidel · heretic · apostate · blasphemer · atheist

certainty and conviction

believestsuspect

Believe to be likely

waver · hesitate · vacillate · distrust · uncertainty

Phrases
Family

believe, believes, believed, believer, believers, disbelieve, disbeliever, disbelievers, misbeliever

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