All 4 Uses of
credulous
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- We shall therefore very minutely lay open those previous matters by which it was produced; and for that purpose we shall be obliged to reveal all the secrets of a little family with which my reader is at present entirely unacquainted; and of which the oeconomy was so rare and extraordinary, that I fear it will shock the utmost credulity of many married persons.†
Book 2credulity = gullibility (being too willing to believe)
- Such credulity would better become one of us weak women, than that wise sex which heaven hath formed for politicians.
Book 6 *
- A conduct which must have shocked the credulity of a pious and sagacious heathen; and which could never have been defended, unless by agreeing with a supposition to which I have been sometimes almost inclined, that this most glorious poet, as he certainly was, had an intent to burlesque the superstitious faith of his own age and country.†
Book 8
- Their deities were always ready at the writer's elbow, to execute any of his purposes; and the more extraordinary the invention was, the greater was the surprize and delight of the credulous reader.†
Book 17credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)