credulity

Example Sentences

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And he dares to reach for timeless meanings rather than immediate credulities by making the time 1400, "either more or less or exactly," and the setting an ordinary English market town called Cool Clary.

From Time Magazine Archive

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

And this yet more inclined the young noble, who, though sufficiently devout, yielded but little to the wilder credulities of the time, to doubt the success of the schemer's projects.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Ah, Zanoni, play not with the foolish credulities of my youth!

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Fantastic learning: Alchemy, magic, miracles, old-wives, tales, credulities, superstitions, pseudo-science, and impostures of all sorts inherited from an ignorant past, and now conserved as treasures of knowledge.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson