Both Uses of
credulous
in
Absalom, Absalom!
- ...to move the dreamer ... to credulity...
Chpt 1 *credulity = willingness to believe
- …from that rapport with the fluid cradle of events (time) which she had acquired or cultivated by listening beyond closed doors not to what she heard there but by becoming supine and receptive, incapable of either discrimination or opinion or incredulity, to the pre-fever's temperature of disaster which makes soothsayers and sometimes makes them right, of the future catastrophe in which the ogre-face of her childhood would apparently vanish so completely that she would agree to marry…†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(credulous) gullible (being too willing to believe)