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单词 ultrafidian
释义

ultrafidianadj.

Etymology: < the Latin phrase ultrā fidem ‘beyond faith’.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ultraˈfidian.
Going beyond mere faith; blindly credulous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [adjective]
lightc1475
light-eareda1530
credulous1567
over-credulous1579
credulent1584
well-believing1620
sequacious1653
implicit1694
ultrafidiana1849
lame1942
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 96 The great moralist, who balanced an ultrafidian credulity in the supernatural with an extraordinary degree of scepticism in things natural and human.
1865 Reader 14 Jan. 43/2 It must be, however, a strangely incurious and ultrafidian mind that can consent to rest there..simply at another's bidding.

Derivatives

ultraˈfidianism n.
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
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 201 Sir Thomas Brown..could answer all the objections of the Devil and Reason..‘with the odd resolution he had learnt of Tertullian: Certum est quia impossibile est.’.. Now this I call Ultra-fidianism.
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