take on faith
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take on faith
verb takes on faith · taking on faith · took on faith · taken on faith
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To accept something without seeing evidence supporting it, by trust or confidence.
Their own parents, for example, will be able to regale them with tales about how they simply took it on faith that democracy was the best possible form of government, and this blinded them from even considering the possibility that Washington was full of idiots and crooks.
Similar: take on trust
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title = {take on faith},
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