All 3 Uses of
credulous
in
The Last of the Mohicans
- As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances of the wilderness, the blood of the timid curdled with terror, and mothers cast anxious glances even at those children which slumbered within the security of the largest towns.†
Chpt 1
- Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity,
Chpt 19 *credulity = willingness to believe
- But when David, unconscious of being observed, turned his head, and exposed his simple, mild countenance, in place of the haughty lineaments of their prisoner, it would have exceeded the credulity of even a native to have doubted any longer.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(credulous) gullible (being too willing to believe)