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credent

[ kreed-nt ]

adjective

  1. Archaic. believing.
  2. Obsolete. credible.


credent

/ ˈ°ì°ù¾±Ë»åÉ™²Ô³Ù /

adjective

  1. obsolete.
    believing or believable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦°ù±ðd±ð²Ô³Ù·±ô²â adverb
  • ²Ô´Ç²Ô·³¦°ù±ðd±ð²Ô³Ù adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of credent1

1595–1605; < Latin ³¦°ùŧ»å±ð²Ô³Ù- (stem of ³¦°ùŧ»åŧ²Ô²õ ), present participle of ³¦°ùŧ»å±ð°ù±ð to believe
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of credent1

C17: from Latin ³¦°ùŧ»åŧ²Ô²õ believing
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Example Sentences

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To thine own self be true, they say, and I, still harping, I ask your credent ear to listen: we shall not look upon his like again?

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I give no credent ear to the dream; and if it should come true, the gentile might remain undisturbed for me.

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Speed gives some little aid to the imagination in its credent regard for the story: "Elswith, the wife of king Ælfred, was the daughter of Ethelfred, surnamed Muchel, that is, the Great, an Earle of the Mercians, who inhabited about Gainesborough, in Lincolnshire: her mother was Edburg, a lady borne of the Bloud roiall of Mercia."

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Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs.

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Yet reason dares her no; For my authority bears of a credent bulk, IV.

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