Credulity

Examples

• But there was less equivocal testimony, which the credulity of the assembly, or of the greater part, greedily swallowed, however incredible. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Bertha has been behaving more than ever like a madwoman, and George's powers of credulity are very nearly exhausted. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• No lurking horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Few things, however, so tax the credulity of the uninformed as a description of the functions and possibilities of the spectroscope. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They greedily imbibed this belief; and their over-weening credulity even rendered them eager to make converts to the same faith. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The information may be of use to you, if only to prevent your credulity, in judging another man's truthfulness by your own, from being imposed upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We are made, so to speak, for belief; credulity is natural. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This author puts my credulity on its mettle every now and then. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What was this, but the action of diseased imaginations and childish credulity? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Customers will be drawn to each conventicle by new industry and address, in practising on the passions and credulity of the populace. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those who support a hypothesis should bring it to the test of rigid verification, avoiding skepticism, shunning credulity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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