credent

[kreed-nt]

adjective

1. Archaic.,  believing.

2. Obsolete.,  credible.

credent

/ ˈkriːdənt /

adjective

1. obsolete,  believing or believable

Other Word Forms

• credently adverb
• noncredent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of credent¹

1595–1605; < Latin crēdent- (stem of crēdēns ), present participle of crēdere to believe

Word History and Origins

Origin of credent¹

C17: from Latin crēdēns believing

Example Sentences

To thine own self be true, they say, and I, still harping, I ask your credent ear to listen: we shall not look upon his like again?

From Project Gutenberg

I give no credent ear to the dream; and if it should come true, the gentile might remain undisturbed for me.

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Speed gives some little aid to the imagination in its credent regard for the story: "Elswith, the wife of king Ælfred, was the daughter of Ethelfred, surnamed Muchel, that is, the Great, an Earle of the Mercians, who inhabited about Gainesborough, in Lincolnshire: her mother was Edburg, a lady borne of the Bloud roiall of Mercia."

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Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs.

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Yet reason dares her no; For my authority bears of a credent bulk, IV.

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