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The Phantom of the Opera
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- The girl's highly strung imagination, her affectionate and credulous mind, the primitive education which had surrounded her childhood with a circle of legends, the constant brooding over her dead father and, above all, the state of sublime ecstasy into which music threw her from the moment that this art was made manifest to her in certain exceptional conditions, as in the churchyard at Perros; all this seemed to him to constitute a moral ground only too favorable for the malevolent designs of some mysterious and unscrupulous person.†
Chpt 8 *credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)
- [1] It is very natural that, at the time when the Persian was writing, he should take so many precautions against any spirit of incredulity on the part of those who were likely to read his narrative†
Chpt 24incredulity = a state of not believingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incredulity means not and reverses the meaning of credulity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definitions:
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(1)
(credulous) gullible (being too willing to believe)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)