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            "mean": "Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.\nMy dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else."
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            "mean": "Having faith.\n2009,  Paul Lakeland,  Church: Living Communion, page 162:The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church."
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            "mean": "Reliable; worthy of trust.\nMy servant is very faithful."
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            "mean": "Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.\nThey had been faithful to each other all of their married life.\n1976,  The Missouri Breaks:She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful."
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            "mean": "(in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.\nThe faithful pray five times a day.\n1984,  Dune\u200e (Science Fiction), \u2192OCLC, spoken by Paul Atreides, 2:11:25 from the start:We Fremen have a saying: God created Arrakis to train the faithful. One cannot go against the word of God."
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            "mean": "Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.\n2009 September 30,  Bruce DeMara,  \u201cShaw's comedy gets teeth\u201d, in  Toronto Star\u200e:Earlier this year, as the recession put a damper on ticket sales, Maxwell said the easy route would have been to go for the tried-and-true old faithfuls."
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