credibilizev.
/ˈkrɛdᵻbᵻlʌɪz/, /ˈkrɛdᵻbl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈkrɛdəbəˌlaɪz/ transitive. To make credible or more credible, increase the credibility of.
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1866 J. Conington Let. 24 Mar. in Misc. Writ. (1872) I. p. lx Our Lord's character does not require credibilising to my mind.
1914 Mod. Lang. Rev. 9 166 Occasionally circumstances are added to ‘credibilise’ the incident.
1977 ‘M. Innes’ Honeybath's Haven xiii. 120 We have to credibilize what happened, if I may put it that way.
2011 H. Blau Reality Princ. xix. 254 As for any appearance in the flesh, whatever the quotient of liveness, it may of course be augmented, as well as credibilized, by previous celebrity in the media.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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