Adjective: faith-based
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more faith-based |
| Superlative | most faith-based |
Sample Sentences
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[…] a self-confidence which stems from faith in the Buddha and His power. By this faith-based confidence they cure themselves. [1982, Melford E. Spiro, Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes:]
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You are requesting a $2,100,000 increase for a "Faith Based and Community Initiatives," for a total of $37,432,000 […]. What distinguishes these projects from faith-based initiatives of the Employment and Training Administration? [2006, Senate Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations:]
Adjectives inflected like faith-based
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From faith + based. The political sense emerged from the 1970s to the 1980s. The term "faith-based organization" dates from 1971.http://books.google.com/books?id=yXLwAAAAMAAJ&q=%22faith-based+organizations%22&dq=%22faith-based+organizations%22&hl=en&ei=zaFrTPbWLcuMOOKMja0B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg