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Credent   Listen
adjective
Credent  adj.  
1.
Believing; giving credence; credulous. (R.) "If with too credent ear you list songs."
2.
Having credit or authority; credible. (Obs.) "For my authority bears of a credent bulk."





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"Credent" Quotes from Famous Books



... unpregnant, And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid! And by an eminent body that enforced 20 The law against it! But that her tender shame Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no; For my authority bears of a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch 25 But it confounds the breather. He should have lived, Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense, Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge, By so receiving a dishonour'd life With ransom ...
— Measure for Measure - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare


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