take on faith

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Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Toacceptsomething without seeingevidencesupporting it, bytrustorconfidence.Synonym:take on trust2010, Mark R. Crovelli,Gathering Data while Washington Burns:Their own parents, for example, will be able to regale them with tales about how they simplytook it on faiththat 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.

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