An idea that preoccupies an individual and that he is unwilling to give up despite evidence to the contrary.
1 His future happiness must depend on his fixed belief in her purity and truth.
2 If, however, that be your fixed belief , you may find it often severely tested.
3 But underneath his calmness there was an unrest, hungering for repose,-therepose of a fixed belief .
4 But this was a fixed belief of Molly's.
5 But no experience could alter Napoleon's fixed belief in the fatuity of all warfare except his own.
6 This is a fixed belief that you are guilty of something and that you deserve to be punished.
7 He thus voices his fixed belief : -
8 What had been a fancy, slowly became a fixed belief in the mind thus constantly dwelling upon one idea.
9 For Bob, fixed belief was intellectual suicide, and the framing of an argument into only two competing sides was absurd.
10 One old inhabitant came to have the fixed belief that David was the origin of pretty well all the mishaps in Llanystumdwy.
11 She knew well his fixed belief that she and Vere depended entirely on him, felt always perfectly safe when he was near.
12 For a moment I look down irresolute, then, through some fixed belief in him, I look up and tell him the plain, bare truth.
13 Constitutionally he was a nervous and pessimistic man with a fixed belief in the conspiracy of events, banded for the undoing of him and his.
14 "Tell you what, Bates," said Theydon abstractedly, "it is my fixed belief that you and I could do with a brandy and soda apiece."
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