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credulity
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Definition:an open willingness to believe without requiring proof; gullibility
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Of all the stories that ever taxed the brain or credulity of a man of science, that of Joshua stopping the sun and moon stands pre-eminent.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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For how could the fear, the hatred and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch, except by bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force?
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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But even as they see that the credulous and vain are disposed at the first blush to accept and believe everything that is proposed to them, so do they observe that the dull and unintellectual are indisposed to see what lies before their eyes, and even deny the light of the noonday sun.
William Harvey. On The Motion of The Heart And Blood In Animals (1628)
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An examination of the principles upon which this pretended system is founded, forces us to acknowledge, that these principles are only suppositions, imagined by ignorance, propagated by enthusiasm or knavery, adopted by timid credulity, preserved by custom which never reasons, and revered solely because not understood.
Baron D'Holbach. Good Sense (1772)
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It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here!
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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But I believed him for a second - more than a second - and that's what really pisses me off. I was ridiculous, credulous.
Paula Hawkins. The Girl on the Train, p.131 (2015)
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What use were anger and protestations against her silly credulity?
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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But in my credulous, simple, benevolent mind
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain If with too credent ear you list his songs,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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