Italian edit

Etymology edit

Literally, to hold faith.

Verb edit

tenére fede (first-person singular present tèngo fede, first-person singular past historic ténni fede or tènni fede, past participle tenùto fede, first-person singular future terrò fede, auxiliary avére) [+ a (object)]

  1. to respect an existing promise, commitment, etc.; to keep; to honor
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      Insistette che avrebbe continuato a tener fede alle sue responsabilità, da persona che «non ha mai cercato il potere»...
      He insisted that he would continue to fulfill his responsibility, as someone who had "never, ever been seeking power"...
      (literally, “He insisted that he would have continued to honor his responsibilities, as a person who "had never sought power"...”)

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