Both Uses of
credulous
in
Ivanhoe
- …piercing black eyes; his high and wrinkled forehead, and long grey hair and beard, would have been considered as handsome, had they not been the marks of a physiognomy peculiar to a race, which, during those dark ages, was alike detested by the credulous and prejudiced vulgar, and persecuted by the greedy and rapacious nobility, and who, perhaps, owing to that very hatred and persecution, had adopted a national character, in which there was much, to say the least, mean and unamiable.†
Chpt 5
- But there was less equivocal testimony, which the credulity of the assembly, or of the greater part, greedily swallowed, however incredible.†
Chpt 37 *
Definition:
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(credulous) gullible (being too willing to believe)