faith (the commonest uses are)
1.
loyalty,
fidelity Gent. IV. iii. 26,
MND. III. ii. 127
“Bearing the badge of
to
prove them true,”
2H6 V. i. 166
“O! where is ? O! where
is loyalty?,”
H8 II. i. 143, Cæs. III. i. 137;
esp. faithfulness in love, true love (freq.).
2.
freq. used
exclamatorily in “by”
or “on my faith, (in) good
faith, in” or “i'
faith, faith” (also “'faith”); added to
imperatives Err. IV. iv. 153, Ado I. i. 236, MND. I. ii. 50, Troil. IV. i. 51; to
questions Tw.N. II. iv. 27, Ham. I. ii. 168.
