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credulity [krɪˈdjuːlɪtɪ] n
disposition to believe something on little evidence; gullibility ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
credulity noun gullibility, naïveté or naivety, blind faith, credulousness The plot stretches credulity to the limits. Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| If we wish to know to what daring lengths cunning can go, to what pitiable self-delusion credulity can consent, we must watch the proceedings--even while we shrink from them--of a Mercy Merrick and a Julian Gray. We shall therefore very minutely lay open those previous matters by which it was produced; and for that purpose we shall be obliged to reveal all the secrets of a little family with which my reader is at present entirely unacquainted; and of which the oeconomy was so rare and extraordinary, that I fear it will shock the utmost credulity of many married persons. I am equally confounded at HER impudence and HIS credulity. |
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