[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That believes, or has faith.
c. 1440. Three Kings Col. (1885), 2. Þes III kynges, þat of myscreauntys were þe first bileuyng men.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., II. i. 66. God be prays’d, that to beleeuing Soules Giues Light in Darknesse.
1762. Goldsm., Nash, 76. Poor, believing girls deceived by such professions.
1875. M. Pattison, Casaubon, 252. A scandal and stumbling-block to believing calvinists.
