Word Meanings - HEADSPRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fountain; source. The headspring of our belief. Stapleton.

Related words: (words related to HEADSPRING)

• FOUNTAINLESS
  Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton.
• FOUNTAIN
  1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other
• BELIEFFUL
  Having belief or faith.
• BELIEF
  A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. No man can attain belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker. 3. The thing believed; the object of belief. Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk
• SOURCE
  OF. sors, p.p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air,
• HEADSPRING
  Fountain; source. The headspring of our belief. Stapleton.
• UNBELIEF
  1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. 2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. Cowper. Syn. --
• RESOURCE
  Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind. Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another
• RESOURCEFUL
  Full of resources.
• MISBELIEF
  Erroneous or false belief.
• MAKE-BELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• DISBELIEF
  The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature
• RESOURCELESS
  Destitute of resources. Burke. -- Re*source"less*ness, n. R. Browning.