different between faithful vs accredited

English

Alternative forms

• faithfull (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe??.f?l/

Adjective

faithful (comparative faithfuler or more faithful, superlative faithfulest or most faithful)

1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.

2. Having faith.
   • 2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion (page 162)

     The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.

3. Reliable; worthy of trust.

4. Consistent with reality.

5. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
   • 1976, "Missouri Breakers"[1]

     She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful .

6. (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.

Derived terms

• faithfully
• faithfulness

Translations

See also

• go to the wall for someone
• stand by
• true

Noun

faithful (plural faithfuls)

1. (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.

2. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??k??d.?t.?d/

Etymology 1

• accredit +? -ed
• From the French accréditer.
• See credit.

Verb

accredited

1. simple past tense and past participle of accredit

Etymology 2

• First attested in the 1630s.

Adjective

accredited (comparative more accredited, superlative most accredited)

1. Given official approval after meeting certain standards, as an accredited university; or as disease free cattle.
   • 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

     The answer should give us the— But halloo! here are the accredited representatives of the law.

Synonyms

• commissioned, licensed

Translations

Anagrams

• deaccredit