credulityn.

Brit.

/krᵻˈdjuːlᵻti/,

/krᵻˈdʒuːlᵻti/, U.S.

/krəˈd(j)ulədi/

Forms: late Middle English credulyte, late Middle English 1600s credulite, 1500s–1600s credulitie, 1500s– credulity, 1600s credulitye, 1600s credulytie; also Scottish pre-1700 credilite.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French credulite; Latin crēdulitās.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French credulite (French credulité ) fact of believing, belief, credence, readiness to believe (13th cent. in Old French; in modern French usually ‘imprudent or naive belief’), something that one believes, opinion (c1370), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin crēdulitās trustfulness, readiness to believe, imprudence, in post-classical Latin also (with positive connotation) faith, credence, profession of the Christian faith (4th cent.) < crēdulus (see credulous adj.) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix).

1. Belief, credence. Chiefly in to give credulity to: = to give credence to at credence n. Phrases 1.Now commonly regarded as erroneous by usage writers.

2002 S. Greenbaum & J. Whitcut Gowers's Compl. Plain Words (U.S. ed. 2) xvii. 217 Credence, Credibility, Credulity These words are sometimes confused. Credence means belief or trust..and credulity the quality of being ready to believe anything.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [noun]

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a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. l. 106 Smale pottis with milk & hony born..Made the peeple yiue credulite To his doctryne and froward teching.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 19 To ȝiffe feithe and credulite to the dictes of those men.

1621 J. Taylor Motto sig. A7^v I haue credulity, that when I heere A man anouch a thing, protest and sweare, I haue giu'n credit to him by and by, Although the wicked wretch did sweare and lye.

1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) V. 17 His ridiculous credulity in dreams, signs and prodigies.

1781 tr. G.-T.-F. Raynal Revol. of Amer. 137 The bloody scene, notwithstanding, did not open yet; and this delay gave credulity a ground of hope.

1843 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 12 Apr. 193 Enough truth is seen to give credulity to a host of fallacies.

1866 B. Z. Spencer Tried & True iii. 40 His was not a mind so easily lulled to rest as to give credulity to the glowing predictions which had so often been repeated around him.

1914 J. K. Goodrich Coming Hawaii x. 128 A good many of the old folks even now give credulity to this myth.

2002 L. Sia Date with Death xxxiii. 150 The priest had credulity in Toto's character.

a. The quality or state of being a believer; readiness or inclination to believe.Now rare in appreciative sense or positive contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > readiness to believe

credulity1532

credulousness1598

credulitiveness1824

credenciveness1839

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 579/1 The spirite of God..woorketh in man the credulitie and belief by which we..belieue the church.

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 78/5 The cleir fayth and credulitie of our elders.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 176 Thomas his Absence and Incredulitie hath bred more faith in us, then the credulitie of them all.

1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 64 The steddiest in their credulity, may have some doubts.

1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 19 The Whig-Party do wisely, to try the Credulity of the People sometimes.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 214 We see, what motion the Scripture gives to the sun..according to the appearance of sense and of popular credulity.

1829 Spirit of Pilgrims Jan. 22 It requires rational credulity to believe, or rational ingenuity to solve, this mystery.

1881 Nature 3 Feb. 309/2 He is drawing a cheque on our credulity which is not likely to be honoured.

1902 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 22 310 It must be admitted that his efforts to raise the wind put some strain upon our credulity.

1959 S. Delaney Taste of Honey i. ii. 34 The extent of my credulity always depends on the extent of my alcoholic intake.

2008 Private Eye 8 Aug. 26/3 Credulity is also stretched by the promise of a park and ride at Wotmoor for up to 5,000 residents' cars and 6,000 others.

b. Too great a readiness to believe; inclination to believe on weak or insufficient grounds, credulousness.In earlier use often more a contextual than an independent sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun]

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acceptativeness1870

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1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 229 A..bayte, alluryng our simplicitie and credulitie.

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Ccii^v Light belief, credulitie, or lightnes to beleue some thing. Credulitas.

1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. §82 I had rather wrong my selfe, by credulity; then others, by vniust censures and suspicions.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 188 By his credulity to any tale that is told.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xi. 104 An ungrounded credulity cry'd up for faith.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 142 Good-nature, and Credulity the child of good-nature, are generally..the foundation of their crime.

1811 Monthly Mag. 32 143 It..narrates with philosophic, and sometimes with medical commentaries the more remarkable cases of credulity, superstition, errancy of idea,..or phrenzy which came under the author's observation.

1866 C. Dickens Let. 20 Aug. (1999) XI. 235 A humbug, living on the credulity of the people.

1918 J. London Sel. Stories 981 They had laughed at the old navigator's child-like credulity.

1967 A. M. Hardee Jean de Lannel & Pre-classical French Novel ii. 65 Another aspect of popular life is illustrated in the presentation of a shadier group such as magicians and charlatans who thrive on the credulity of the crowds.

2006 Wired Nov. 186/2 It is not merely God that is untenable, but superstition, credulity, and magical thinking in general.

3. An instance of credulity (in any sense); a readiness or inclination to believe, esp. on weak or insufficient grounds; a credulous belief.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun] > instance of

credulity1548

over-belief1862

1548 J. Veron tr. H. Bullinger Holsome Antidotus sig. nii Faithe without workes, is no faithe, but an oppinion and credulitie, or light beleue, which faith can not saue.

1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) iii. ix. 119 He must then haue twelue compurgators to sweare of their consciences, and credulities for his clearing, after himselfe haue taken the oath.

1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares i. i. sig. B2^v Do you not brag amongst your selues how grosly you abuse their honest credulities?

1682 R. Ferguson Third Part No Protestant Plot 130 What he Deposed against that great man was all Forgery, and that he was only seeking to beget a credulity in the Court, by a vain ostentation of his knowledge in Civil Affairs.

1719 J. Leng Nat. Obligations xiv. 424 There is a remarkable instance, in the old Testament, of a Prophet punished for too easy a credulity in the pretended Revelation of another prophet.

1792 J. S. Barr tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. VII. 261 Without adopting the credulities of antiquity, and the puerile fictions of superstition, the elephant is an animal still worth the attention of a philosopher.

1809 J. Carr Caledonian Sketches xxiv. 272 A pretension to Divine Revelation, and of course a credulity in it amongst some, will be found to have existed by the following whimsical anecdote; [etc.].

1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) II. 401 His very credulities have a philosophy of their own.

a1850 D. G. Rossetti Dante & Circle (1874) ii. 266 The native home of all credulities and monstrosities.

1901 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 247 Lending too superstitious a credulity to the charges of venality made against a certain portion of the French press.

1932 J. A. Thomson Riddles of Sci. xxxviii. 245 (heading) Natural history credulities.

1965 A. Wright Henry Fielding ii. 111 Booth betrays an incautiousness and a credulity, as well as a warmth of heart, that demonstrate to the reader the inevitability of his soon falling into the toils of the resourceful Miss Matthews.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Mar. 51/2 He thinks their submersion in magic..was continuous with our own credulities.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	credulity
释义	credulityn. Brit. /krᵻˈdjuːlᵻti/, /krᵻˈdʒuːlᵻti/, U.S. /krəˈd(j)ulədi/ Forms: late Middle English credulyte, late Middle English 1600s credulite, 1500s–1600s credulitie, 1500s– credulity, 1600s credulitye, 1600s credulytie; also Scottish pre-1700 credilite. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French credulite; Latin crēdulitās. Etymology: < (i) Middle French credulite (French credulité ) fact of believing, belief, credence, readiness to believe (13th cent. in Old French; in modern French usually ‘imprudent or naive belief’), something that one believes, opinion (c1370), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin crēdulitās trustfulness, readiness to believe, imprudence, in post-classical Latin also (with positive connotation) faith, credence, profession of the Christian faith (4th cent.) < crēdulus (see credulous adj.) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). 1. Belief, credence. Chiefly in to give credulity to: = to give credence to at credence n. Phrases 1.Now commonly regarded as erroneous by usage writers. 2002 S. Greenbaum & J. Whitcut Gowers's Compl. Plain Words (U.S. ed. 2) xvii. 217 Credence, Credibility, Credulity These words are sometimes confused. Credence means belief or trust..and credulity the quality of being ready to believe anything. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [noun] ylevec888 levec950 hopec1000 trothc1175 trusta1200 trutha1200 tristc1200 beliefa1225 tresta1300 traistinga1340 traistnessa1340 fiance1340 affiancec1350 affyc1380 tristening1382 credencea1393 faitha1393 levenessc1400 confidencec1430 credulity?a1439 trustingc1450 confiance1490 credit1533 fiduce1582 confidency1606 confidingness1682 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. l. 106 Smale pottis with milk & hony born..Made the peeple yiue credulite To his doctryne and froward teching. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 19 To ȝiffe feithe and credulite to the dictes of those men. 1621 J. Taylor Motto sig. A7^v I haue credulity, that when I heere A man anouch a thing, protest and sweare, I haue giu'n credit to him by and by, Although the wicked wretch did sweare and lye. 1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) V. 17 His ridiculous credulity in dreams, signs and prodigies. 1781 tr. G.-T.-F. Raynal Revol. of Amer. 137 The bloody scene, notwithstanding, did not open yet; and this delay gave credulity a ground of hope. 1843 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 12 Apr. 193 Enough truth is seen to give credulity to a host of fallacies. 1866 B. Z. Spencer Tried & True iii. 40 His was not a mind so easily lulled to rest as to give credulity to the glowing predictions which had so often been repeated around him. 1914 J. K. Goodrich Coming Hawaii x. 128 A good many of the old folks even now give credulity to this myth. 2002 L. Sia Date with Death xxxiii. 150 The priest had credulity in Toto's character. 2. a. The quality or state of being a believer; readiness or inclination to believe.Now rare in appreciative sense or positive contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > [noun] > readiness to believe credulity1532 credulousness1598 credulitiveness1824 credenciveness1839 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 579/1 The spirite of God..woorketh in man the credulitie and belief by which we..belieue the church. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 78/5 The cleir fayth and credulitie of our elders. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 176 Thomas his Absence and Incredulitie hath bred more faith in us, then the credulitie of them all. 1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 64 The steddiest in their credulity, may have some doubts. 1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 19 The Whig-Party do wisely, to try the Credulity of the People sometimes. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 214 We see, what motion the Scripture gives to the sun..according to the appearance of sense and of popular credulity. 1829 Spirit of Pilgrims Jan. 22 It requires rational credulity to believe, or rational ingenuity to solve, this mystery. 1881 Nature 3 Feb. 309/2 He is drawing a cheque on our credulity which is not likely to be honoured. 1902 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 22 310 It must be admitted that his efforts to raise the wind put some strain upon our credulity. 1959 S. Delaney Taste of Honey i. ii. 34 The extent of my credulity always depends on the extent of my alcoholic intake. 2008 Private Eye 8 Aug. 26/3 Credulity is also stretched by the promise of a park and ride at Wotmoor for up to 5,000 residents' cars and 6,000 others. b. Too great a readiness to believe; inclination to believe on weak or insufficient grounds, credulousness.In earlier use often more a contextual than an independent sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun] overtrowingc1425 overtrowtha1500 overtrowshipa1525 credulity1547 tickle credit1563 credulency1586 credulousness1598 overcredulityc1625 credulence1650 sequaciousness1653 ultrafidianism1825 nasoductilitya1834 camel-swallowing1858 acceptativeness1870 leadableness1885 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 229 A..bayte, alluryng our simplicitie and credulitie. 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Ccii^v Light belief, credulitie, or lightnes to beleue some thing. Credulitas. 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. §82 I had rather wrong my selfe, by credulity; then others, by vniust censures and suspicions. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 188 By his credulity to any tale that is told. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xi. 104 An ungrounded credulity cry'd up for faith. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 142 Good-nature, and Credulity the child of good-nature, are generally..the foundation of their crime. 1811 Monthly Mag. 32 143 It..narrates with philosophic, and sometimes with medical commentaries the more remarkable cases of credulity, superstition, errancy of idea,..or phrenzy which came under the author's observation. 1866 C. Dickens Let. 20 Aug. (1999) XI. 235 A humbug, living on the credulity of the people. 1918 J. London Sel. Stories 981 They had laughed at the old navigator's child-like credulity. 1967 A. M. Hardee Jean de Lannel & Pre-classical French Novel ii. 65 Another aspect of popular life is illustrated in the presentation of a shadier group such as magicians and charlatans who thrive on the credulity of the crowds. 2006 Wired Nov. 186/2 It is not merely God that is untenable, but superstition, credulity, and magical thinking in general. 3. An instance of credulity (in any sense); a readiness or inclination to believe, esp. on weak or insufficient grounds; a credulous belief. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun] > instance of credulity1548 over-belief1862 1548 J. Veron tr. H. Bullinger Holsome Antidotus sig. nii Faithe without workes, is no faithe, but an oppinion and credulitie, or light beleue, which faith can not saue. 1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) iii. ix. 119 He must then haue twelue compurgators to sweare of their consciences, and credulities for his clearing, after himselfe haue taken the oath. 1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares i. i. sig. B2^v Do you not brag amongst your selues how grosly you abuse their honest credulities? 1682 R. Ferguson Third Part No Protestant Plot 130 What he Deposed against that great man was all Forgery, and that he was only seeking to beget a credulity in the Court, by a vain ostentation of his knowledge in Civil Affairs. 1719 J. Leng Nat. Obligations xiv. 424 There is a remarkable instance, in the old Testament, of a Prophet punished for too easy a credulity in the pretended Revelation of another prophet. 1792 J. S. Barr tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. VII. 261 Without adopting the credulities of antiquity, and the puerile fictions of superstition, the elephant is an animal still worth the attention of a philosopher. 1809 J. Carr Caledonian Sketches xxiv. 272 A pretension to Divine Revelation, and of course a credulity in it amongst some, will be found to have existed by the following whimsical anecdote; [etc.]. 1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) II. 401 His very credulities have a philosophy of their own. a1850 D. G. Rossetti Dante & Circle (1874) ii. 266 The native home of all credulities and monstrosities. 1901 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 247 Lending too superstitious a credulity to the charges of venality made against a certain portion of the French press. 1932 J. A. Thomson Riddles of Sci. xxxviii. 245 (heading) Natural history credulities. 1965 A. Wright Henry Fielding ii. 111 Booth betrays an incautiousness and a credulity, as well as a warmth of heart, that demonstrate to the reader the inevitability of his soon falling into the toils of the resourceful Miss Matthews. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Mar. 51/2 He thinks their submersion in magic..was continuous with our own credulities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1439
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