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noun

Credence n.

Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence. "To give credence to the Scripture miracles." "An assertion which might easily find credence."

That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence.

(Eccl.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.

A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.

verb

Credence v. t. To give credence to; to believe. (Obs.)

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"Credence" Quotes from Famous Books

... "a fanaticism of atheism, as well as of superstitious belief; and a philosopher can harbour and express as much malice against those who persevere in believing what he is pleased to denounce as unworthy of credence, as an ignorant and bigoted priest can bear against a man who cannot yield faith to dogmata which he thinks insufficiently proved." Accordingly, the throne being totally annihilated, it appeared to the philosophers of the school of ...

— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox

... do not merit credence. Moreover, they are of comparatively recent origin. For a long time the school bore the name, not of Rashi, but of Eleazar of Worms, and it was not built until the beginning of the thirteenth century. Destroyed in 1615, it was restored in 1720 ...

— Rashi • Maurice Liber

... that these graves were those of Indians who belonged to the church; and a few Indians inform me that the head is sometimes placed towards the west, according to the occupant's belief when alive as to the direction from which his guiding medicine came, and I am personally inclined to give credence to this latter as sometimes occurring.) In all burials, when the person has died a natural death, or had not been murdered, and whether man, woman, or child, the body is placed in the grave with the face up. In cases, however, when a man or woman ...

— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow

... wife openly accused the husband of never having liked the animal, and more than hinted that he and the gardener between them could give a tolerably truthful account of its last moments; an insinuation that the husband repudiated with a warmth that only added credence to the original surmise. ...

— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome

... in your territories, and I don't question but you'll there find Mrs. Behn writ as often in black characters, and stand as thick in some places, as the names of the generation of Adam in the first of Genesis.' How far credence may be given to anything of Brown's is of course a moot point, but the above passage and much that follows would be witless and dull unless there were some real suggestion of scandal. Moreover, it cannot here be applied ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

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