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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Credence is a statistical term that expresses how much a person believes that a proposition is true. As an example, a reasonable person will believe with 50% credence that a fair coin will land on heads the next time it is flipped. If the prize for correctly ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB gain ▪ Techniques that can not readily be proven analytically are unlikely to gain much engineering credence . give ▪ But the London office checked it out and confirmed that the sheer secrecy of the Bedford police gave ...
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) acceptance of a belief or claim as true, especially on the basis of evidence. 2 (context rare uncountable English) credential or supporting material for a person or claim. 3 (context religion countable English) A small ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Credence \Cre"dence\, v. t. To give credence to; to believe. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of credence.
He is attended as if he were a prince, with drums and atabals, and servants on horse and foot, and brings with him letters of credence from Saladin.
So he took it, and looked upon it, and considered it, and took notice also of that short petition that the men of Mansoul had written at the bottom of it, and called to him the noble Captain Credence, and bid him go and take Captain Patience with him, and go and take care of that side of Mansoul that was beleaguered by the blood-men.
She was not a fearful person, and gave absolutely no credence to ghost stories-and yet she found herself remembering what Cheb had said about the former mistress of this castle.
Just as this Diabolonian council was broken up, Captain Credence received a letter from Emmanuel, the contents of which were these: That upon the third day he would meet him in the field in the plains about Mansoul.
However, she was faithful to our mutual promise, and told him I was her husband, though the Venetian did not seem to give the least credence to this piece of information.
Christ, we are strongly supported in giving credence to the doctrinal statements of that book as affording, in spite of its lateness, a correct epitome of the old Persian theology.
His two friends had given credence to the general report, stating that the podesta had ordered me to leave Padua.
In the clear light of logic, Nen Yim herself saw no particular reason to give them credence.
There are several cases among the older writers in which odors are said to have produced abortion, but as analogues are not to be found in modern literature, unless the odor is very poisonous or pungent, we can give them but little credence.
Martin Luther King Day, 1990, this lent a credence to his claim that genuinely alarmed telco security and the Secret Service.
It hosts branches of Silicon Valley household names such as Credence, HPL, and Virage Logic.
Could we see as cogent a motive for asseverating his guilt as we find for his insisting upon his innocence, we should lend as much credence to the one as to the other.
There are several cases mentioned by the older writers whose statements are generally worthy of credence, which, however incredible, are of sufficient interest at least to find a place in this chapter.
Had Basterga, assailing him from a different side, broached the precise story to which, in the case of Agrippa or Albertus Magnus, the Syndic was prepared to give credence, he had certainly received the overture with suspicion if not with contempt.
She felt a nice appearance would lend credence to her tale, undergirded by the photos.