"the implied covenant of good faith is a general presumption that the parties to a contract will deal with each other honestly and fairly, so as not to destroy the right of the other party or parties to receive the benefits of the contract. In insurance law, the insurer's breach of the implied covenant may give rise to a legal liability known as insurance bad faith. Most US jurisdictions view breaches of implied covenants of good faith and fair dealing solely as a variant of breach of contract. Linguistically, in the US, American English usage of ""bona fides"" applies it"
"Uberrima fides Uberrima fides (sometimes seen in its genitive form uberrimae fidei) is a Latin phrase meaning ""utmost good faith"" (literally, ""most abundant faith""). It is the name of a legal doctrine which governs insurance contracts. This means that all parties to an insurance contract must deal in good faith, making a full declaration of all material facts in the insurance proposal. This contrasts with the legal doctrine ""caveat emptor"" (""let the buyer beware""). A higher duty is expected from parties to an insurance contract than from parties to most other contracts in order to ensure the disclosure of all"
"Sincerity Sincerity is the virtue of one who communicates and acts in accordance with their feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and desires. The Oxford English Dictionary and most scholars state that ""sincerity"" from ""sincere"" is derived from the Latin ""sincerus"" meaning ""clean, pure, sound"" (1525–35). ""Sincerus"" may have once meant ""one growth"" (not mixed), from ""sin-"" (one) and ""crescere"" (to grow). ""Crescere"" is cognate with ""Ceres,"" the goddess of grain, as in ""cereal."" According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the Latin word ""sincerus"" is derived from the Indo-European root ""*sm̥kēros"", itself derived from the zero-grade of ""*sem"" (""one"") and the suffixed, lengthened"
"Pistis In Greek mythology, Pistis (Πίστις) was the personification of good faith, trust and reliability. In Christianity and in the New Testament, Pistis is the word for ""faith"". The word is mentioned together with such other personifications as Elpis (Hope), Sophrosyne (Prudence), and the Charites, who were all associated with honesty and harmony among people. Her Roman equivalent was Fides, a personified concept significant in Roman culture. Additionally, a close linkage between pistis and persuasion developed through the discussion of faith and was further morphed by an understanding of pistis as a rhetorical technique. Thus, pistis in rhetoric are the"
"fiduciary obligations can be imported there must be specific circumstances in the relationship that call for their imposition. The doctrine of ""uberrima fides"" is strictly limited in English law to the ""formation"" of the insurance contract. During the mid-20th century, American courts expanded it much farther into a post-formation implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Violation of that implied covenant came to be seen as a tort, now known as insurance bad faith. Uberrima fides Uberrima fides (sometimes seen in its genitive form uberrimae fidei) is a Latin phrase meaning ""utmost good faith"" (literally, ""most abundant faith""). It"
"Integrity Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, or moral uprightness. It is a personal choice to hold one's self to consistent standards. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Integrity can stand in opposition to hypocrisy, in that judging with the standards of integrity involves regarding internal consistency as a virtue, and suggests that parties holding within themselves apparently conflicting values should account for the discrepancy or alter their beliefs. The word ""integrity"" evolved from the Latin adjective ""integer"", meaning ""whole"" or ""complete"". In this context,"
"Faithful saying The faithful sayings (translated as trustworthy saying in the NIV) are sayings in the pastoral epistles of the New Testament. There are five sayings with this label, and the Greek phrase (πιστος ὁ λογος) is the same in all instances, although the KJV uses a different word in 1 Timothy 3:1. George W. Knight III argues that the sayings are ""self-conscious creedal/liturgical expressions of the early church"" which ""either speak in terms of the person and work of Christ or reflect a teaching or saying of Christ,"" and thus ""show the orientation to Christ of the early church."""
"Faithful saying The faithful sayings (translated as trustworthy saying in the NIV) are sayings in the pastoral epistles of the New Testament. There are five sayings with this label, and the Greek phrase (πιστος ὁ λογος) is the same in all instances, although the KJV uses a different word in 1 Timothy 3:1. George W. Knight III argues that the sayings are ""self-conscious creedal/liturgical expressions of the early church"" which ""either speak in terms of the person and work of Christ or reflect a teaching or saying of Christ,"" and thus ""show the orientation to Christ of the early church."""
"Saint Fides (""Faith"" or ""Vera""), her sisters Spes (""Hope"") and Caritas (""Love"") and their mother Sophia (""Wisdom""), died as martyrs in the second century AD during the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire under the emperor Hadrian. The names are also the words designating the three key Christian virtues mentioned in Apostle Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 13:13). In the English language, late 13c., verray ""true, real, genuine,"" later ""actual, sheer"" (late 14c.), from Anglo-French verrai, Old French verai ""true, truthful, sincere; right, just, legal,"" from Vulgar Latin *veracus, from Latin verax (genitive veracis) ""truthful,"" from"
"In vino veritas In vino veritas, also written as in uino ueritas, is a Latin phrase that means ""in wine lies the truth"", suggesting a person under the influence of alcohol is more likely to speak their hidden thoughts and desires. The phrase is sometimes continued as, """"In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas"""", i.e., ""In wine there is truth, in water there is health."" Similar phrases exist across cultures and languages. The expression, together with its counterpart in Greek, ""Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια"" (""En oinōi alētheia""), is found in Erasmus' ""Adagia"", I.vii.17. Pliny the Elder's ""Naturalis historia"" contains an early allusion"
"Testament writers. Several scholars who have studied the usage of ""pi'stis"" in both early Greek manuscripts and the New Testament have concluded that 'faithfulness' is the most satisfactory English translation in many instances. This recent research has prompted some to argue that New Testament faith and belief in Jesus should be understood in terms of faithfulness, loyalty, and commitment to him and his teachings, rather than in terms of belief, trust and reliance. Such an understanding of faith can be integrated well with the moral influence theory of atonement. Objectively, faith is the sum of truths revealed by God in"
"Bad faith Bad faith (Latin: ""mala fides"") is double mindedness or double heartedness in duplicity, fraud, or deception. It may involve intentional deceit of others, or self-deception. The expression ""bad faith"" is associated with ""double heartedness"", which is also translated as ""double mindedness"". A bad faith belief may be formed through self-deception, being double minded, or ""of two minds"", which is associated with faith, belief, attitude, and loyalty. In the 1913 ""Webster's Dictionary"", bad faith was equated with being double hearted, ""of two hearts"", or ""a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set"
"which you may exercise your ingenuity and recognize my devotion, whereby I trust you do not find me slow to satisfy your wishes. Do not imagine that I have undertaken this task supposing you to stand in need of our instruction, but rather believe that out of love of God and in the friendly zeal of brotherhood I have depicted this for you alone to scrutinise. Farewell in Christ, always mindful of us, Amen.The Latin reads:Haec tibi dulcissime fili cozb(er)te de posicione officinarum paucis examplata direxi, quibus sollertiam exerceas tuam, meamq(ue) devotione(m) utcumq(ue) cognoscas, qua tuae bonae voluntari satisfacere me"
"responsibilities, and both legal and religious consequences if broken. Fides was one of the original virtues to be considered a religious ""divinity"" in Roman paganism. In law, ""bona fides"" denotes the mental and moral states of honesty and conviction regarding either the truth or the falsity of a proposition, or of a body of opinion; likewise regarding either the rectitude or the depravity of a line of conduct. As a legal concept ""bona fides"" is especially important in matters of equity. The concept of ""bona fide"" is also proclaimed by the original version of the Magna Carta. In contract law,"
"besides English have introduced a terminological distinction between truth ""fidelity"" and truth ""factuality"". To express ""factuality"", North Germanic opted for nouns derived from ""sanna"" ""to assert, affirm"", while continental West Germanic (German and Dutch) opted for continuations of ""wâra"" ""faith, trust, pact"" (cognate to Slavic ""věra"" ""(religious) faith"", but influenced by Latin ""verus""). Romance languages use terms following the Latin ""veritas"", while the Greek ""aletheia"", Russian ""pravda"" and South Slavic ""istina"" have separate etymological origins. The question of what is a proper basis for deciding how words, symbols, ideas and beliefs may properly be considered true, whether by a single"
"the oath) and the gods; the ""iusiurandum"" is an oath of good faith within the human community that is in accordance with ""ius"" as witnessed by the gods. ""Sacramentum"" is the origin of the English word ""sacrament"", a transition in meaning pointed to by Apuleius's use of the word to refer to religious initiation. In Roman law, a thing given as a pledge or bond was a ""sacramentum"". The ""sacramentum legis actio"" was a sum of money deposited in a legal procedure to affirm that both parties to the litigation were acting in good faith. If correct law and procedures"
"Confidence Confidence has a common meaning of a certainty about handling something, such as work, family, social events, or relationships. Some have ascribed confidence as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Confidence comes from a latin word fidere' which means ""to trust""; therefore, having a self-confidence is having trust in one's self. Arrogance or hubris in this comparison is having unmerited confidence – believing something or someone is capable or correct when they are not. Overconfidence or presumptuousness is excessive"
"political choice. The word translated as ""faith"" in the New Testament is the Greek word ""πίστις"" (""pístis"") which can also be translated ""belief"", ""faithfulness"", and ""trust"". There are various views in Christianity regarding the nature of faith. Some see faith as being persuaded or convinced that something is true. In this view, a person believes something when they are presented with adequate evidence that it is true. Theologian Thomas Aquinas did not hold that faith is mere opinion: on the contrary, he held that it is a mean (understood in the Platonic sense) between excessive reliance on science (i.e. demonstration)"
"Dictionary defines honesty as ""the quality of being honest."" Honest is, in turn, defined as ""Free of deceit; truthful and sincere...Morally correct or virtuous...(attributive) Fairly earned, especially through hard work...(of an action) done with good intentions even if unsuccessful or misguided...(attributive) Simple, unpretentious, and unsophisticated. Honesty Honesty is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere. Honesty is valued in many ethnic and religious cultures. ""Honesty is the best policy"""
"e-grade of ""*ker"" (""grow""), generating the underlying meaning ""of one growth"", hence ""pure, clean."" An often repeated folk etymology proposes that ""sincere"" is derived from the Latin ""sine"" = ""without"", ""cera"" = ""wax"". According to one popular explanation, dishonest sculptors in Rome or Greece would cover flaws in their work with wax to deceive the viewer; therefore, a sculpture ""without wax"" would mean honesty in its perfection. In its early days the word could refer to the immaterial and material. ""One spoke of sincere wine...simply to mean that it had not been adulterated, or, as was once said, sophisticated."" Another"
"unwillingness to question these unchosen loyalties, and this exhibits bad faith as a type of lack of integrity; once we have such loyalties, we are resistant to their scrutiny and self-defensively discount challenges to them in bad faith. In the philosophy of patriotism (loyalty to one's country) bad faith is hiding from oneself the true source of some of one's patriotic beliefs, such as when one fights for a racist totalitarian dictatorship against a free and egalitarian democracy. Bad faith Bad faith (Latin: ""mala fides"") is double mindedness or double heartedness in duplicity, fraud, or deception. It may involve intentional"
"compromise in substance (i.e., the Christian faith), but should present the matter in a gentle way, i.e., ""fortiter in re, suaviter in modo"". This phrase, meaning ""resolute in execution, gentle in manner"" or ""vigorous in deed, gentle in manner"" has since become a famous phrase that is also used as the motto of several organizations. Also: ""Be a lion on the pulpit and a lamb in the box"". This may be true risen Christ Christianity applied. ""Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body,"
"to the ""new"" perspective has been over Paul's use of the Greek word ""pistis"" (""πίστις"", meaning ""trust"", ""belief"", ""faith"", or ""faithfulness""). Writers with a more historic Lutheran and Reformed perspective have typically interpreted this word as meaning a belief in God and Christ, and trust in Christ for salvation with faith that he will save you. This interpretation is based on several passages from the Christian Bible, notably the Deutero-Pauline epistle to the Ephesians: ""For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not as a result"
"choose between faith and reason. American biblical scholar Archibald Thomas Robertson stated that the Greek word ""pistis"" used for faith in the New Testament (over two hundred forty times), and rendered ""assurance"" in Acts 17:31 (KJV), is ""an old verb to furnish, used regularly by Demosthenes for bringing forward evidence."" Likewise Tom Price (Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics) affirms that when the New Testament talks about faith positively it only uses words derived from the Greek root [pistis] which means ""to be persuaded."" In contrast to faith meaning blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of"
"Fidelity Fidelity is the quality of faithfulness or loyalty. Its original meaning regarded duty in a broader sense than the related concept of ""fealty"". Both derive from the Latin word ""fidēlis"", meaning ""faithful or loyal"". In the City of London financial markets it has traditionally been used in the sense encompassed in the motto ""My word is my bond"". In audio, ""fidelity"" denotes how accurately a copy reproduces its source. For example, a worn gramophone record will have a lower fidelity than one in good condition, and a recording made by a low budget record company in the early 20th"
"the foundation of the community of believers, the scriptures and traditions and on the personal experiences of the believer. In English translations of the New Testament, the word ""faith"" generally corresponds to the Greek noun πίστις (""pistis"") or to the Greek verb πιστεύω (""pisteuo""), meaning ""to trust, to have confidence, faithfulness, to be reliable, to assure"". In contrast to noted atheist Richard Dawkins' view of faith as ""blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence"", Alister McGrath quotes the Oxford Anglican theologian W. H. Griffith-Thomas (1861–1924), who states that faith is ""not blind, but intelligent"""
"protection. Some think it is a derivation from the theonym Sancus, the god of the ratification of ""foedera"" and protection of good faith, from the root sancu- plus suffix -io as inquio>incio. In such case the verb would mean an act that reflects or conforms to the function of this god, i.e. the ratifying and guaranteeing compacts. ""Sanctus"", an adjective formed on the past participle of verb sancio, describes that which is ""established as inviolable"" or ""sacred"", most times in a sense different from that of ""sacer"" and ""religiosus"". In fact its original meaning would be that which is protected"
"Brown attributes it to the Spanish language, not Latin. Reference to the same etymology, this time attributed to Latin, later appears in his 2009 novel, ""The Lost Symbol"". First discussed by Aristotle in his """", it resurfaced to become an ideal (virtue) in Europe and North America in the 17th century; and it gained considerable momentum during the Romantic movement, when sincerity was first celebrated as an artistic and social ideal. Indeed, in middle to late nineteenth century America, sincerity was an idea reflected in mannerisms, hairstyles, women's dress, and the literature of the time. More recently sincerity has been"
"Ameen. The meanings attributed to the various forms of the word are: ""trust"", ""faith"", ""worthy to be trusted"", ""truly"", ""reliable"". It is also a form of the Hebrew word ""Amen"" and appears also in Christian usage with the meaning: ""I concur"" (used at the end of a prayer to signify that the words in the prayer are true and reliable, a statement of faith). The Emin philosophy is the result of the work of Raymond Armin (AKA Leo), born in Camden Town, London, in 1924. As a child, Leo came to develop a deep conviction that everything that existed did"
"one of the main virtues any good Roman should possess. The Greek goddess of truth is Aletheia (Ancient Greek: ). The German philosopher Martin Heidegger argues that the truth represented by ""aletheia"" (which essentially means ""unconcealment"") is different from that represented by ""veritas"", which is linked to a Roman understanding of rightness and finally to a Nietzschean sense of justice and a will to power. In Western culture, the word may also serve as a motto. This Latin word """"veritas"""" now appears in the mottos of many colleges and universities. It is typically capitalized in mottoes (as """"Veritas"""") for being"
"""faith"" differs among the various Christian traditions. Despite these differences, Christians generally agree that faith in Jesus lies at the core of the Christian tradition, and that such faith is required in order to be a Christian. The word ""faith"", translated from the Greek ""πιστις"" (""pi'stis""), was primarily used in the New Testament with the Greek perfect tense and translates as a noun-verb hybrid; which is not adequately conveyed by the English noun. The verb form of ""pi'stis"" is ""pisteuo"", which is often translated into English versions of the New Testament as 'believe'. The adjectival form, ""pistos"", is almost always"
"drawn by two horses on 1 October. There they should conduct her services with their heads covered and right hands wrapped up to the fingers to indicate absolute devotion to her and to symbolise trust. The Greek equivalent of Fides is Pistis. Fides (deity) Fides (Latin: ""Fidēs"") was the goddess of trust and ""bona fides"" (good faith) in Roman paganism. She was one of the original virtues to be considered an actual religious divinity. Her temple on the Capitol was where the Roman Senate signed and kept state treaties with foreign countries, and where Fides protected them. The temple can"
"different overtones, being based respectively on Greek (stable being, immutable reality, substance, essence, true nature), and Latin ""substantia"" (that of which a thing consists, the being, essence, contents, material, substance). ""Credo"", which in classical Latin is used with the accusative case of the thing held to be true (and with the dative of the person to whom credence is given), is here used three times with the preposition ""in"", a literal translation of the Greek """" (in unum Deum ..., in unum Dominum ..., in Spiritum Sanctum ...), and once in the classical preposition-less construction (unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam"