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credence
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  • How could people give the slightest credence to these rags?†  (source)
  • I could not give this woman credence because I, of all people, knew how crippling her psychological injuries were.†  (source)
  • Consider the rumor that would have been given increased—credence.†  (source)
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  • the actions of the witness that lend credence to his trial testimony and the actions of the witness that lend credence to his recantation;†  (source)
  • They stood frozen, Mariam and Laila, eyes to the ground, as though looking at each other would give credence to the way Rasheed saw things, that while he was opening doors and lugging baggage for people who wouldn't spare him a glance a lewd conspiracy was shaping behind his back, in his home, in his beloved son's presence.†  (source)
  • Facts about Danny Hansford were beginning to circulate, and they lent credence to Williams's claim of self-defense.†  (source)
  • He said nothing about this, possibly because to mention it would give it more credence than it was worth.†  (source)
  • Adah says no one is giving it any credence; here, no one has ever doubted it.†  (source)
  • If we attempt to silence this talk, we only lend it credence.†  (source)
  • The intimacy of it, the comfort of other voices giving credence to their private myths, prepared them to meet their wives with less distance than they might otherwise bring home after fishing.†  (source)
  • She hadn't given the story much credence—the woman didn't strike her as the marrying type.†  (source)
  • Mutterings here and there, yes, but nothing I'd give credence to.†  (source)
  • Three troublesome nonentities from the Officer Corps were executed to lend credence to the lie.†  (source)
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