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adverb
Credulously  adv.  With credulity.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Credulously" Quotes from Famous Books



... had succeeded his father in 1797, was a conscientious but a timid and spiritless being. Public affairs were in the hands of his private advisers, of whom the most influential were the so-called cabinet-secretaries, Lombard and Beyme, men credulously anxious for the goodwill of France, and perversely blind to the native force and worth which still existed in the Prussian Monarchy. [102] Instead of declaring the entry of the French into Hanover to be absolutely incompatible with the safety of the other North German States, King Frederick ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... Buck where he found it. He replied that he dipped it out of a smooth lake about a half mile distant. It was good plain salt water; they had discovered the mythical bay—or supposed they had. They credulously named it Trinity, expecting to come to the river later. The next day they proceeded down the narrow sand strip that now bounds the west side of Humboldt Bay, but when they reached the harbor entrance from the ocean they were compelled to retrace their steps and try the east shore. ...
— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock

... of civilization was the conquest of the world for the Anglo-Saxon race. For the sake of her London merchants, Old England betrayed Greater Britain, which in the calculations of the London statesmen was only a geographical conception, while the nations without credulously accepted the decisions of English politics as the gospel of ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

... that in youth, and the superstition of first love, we are credulously inclined to believe that love and the possession of the beloved are the only happiness. But when my uncle folded me in his arms and called me the hope of his age and stay of his house,—the music of my father's praise still ringing on my heart,—I ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... after looking up credulously as usual, wrinkled his brow, and said placidly that the man had seen better days. His ...
— Tales Of Hearsay • Joseph Conrad

... presence, and retire to pass the remainder of my existence in misery and regret, maddened with the feeling that some happier mortal will obtain that dear hand, and will rejoice in the possession of those charms which I had too fondly, too credulously, imagined as certain to ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... of lies began to spue out a flood of reproaches to swallow up and bury his name and work in contempt, which was very credulously entertained and industriously spread, not only by profane, but even by many professors, &c. Some saying, he had excommunicated all the ministers in Scotland, and some after they were dead; whereas he only gave reasons why he could not keep communion ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

... Alexander. His design of building a public temple to Christ, (Hist. August. p. 129,) and the objection which was suggested either to him, or in similar circumstances to Hadrian, appear to have no other foundation than an improbable report, invented by the Christians, and credulously adopted by an historian ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... always stared around at the company, and accepted credulously the counterfeit coin of grotesquely exaggerated amazement ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield



Words linked to "Credulously" :   incredulously, credulous, believingly, unbelievingly



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