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单词 credulist
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credulistn.

Brit. /ˈkrɛdjᵿlɪst/, /ˈkrɛdʒᵿlɪst/, U.S. /ˈkrɛdʒələst/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin crēdulus , -ist suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin crēdulus (see credulous adj.) + -ist suffix.
A believer (usually in a depreciative sense); a credulous person.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun] > credulous person
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1616 T. Gainsford Secretaries Studie 121 To entertain pilgrims, trauellers, ignorant deuotists, superstitious papists, and simple credulists, with impudent, lying, & deceitfull relicks.
1788 H. Clarke School Candidates (1877) 53 I read the lumber of those doughty credulists.
1823 Amer. Farmer 11 Apr. 22/3 I ask the credulist, in the first place, if he ever knew..any one vegetable to become another genera?
1896 R. Parsons Stud. Church Hist. III. viii. 152 Perhaps because he was a Borgia, the founder of that family's grandeur,—of that family which is the bugbear of Protestant credulists, a choice target for the shafts of anti-Catholic sarcasm.
1984 A. Comfort Reality & Empathy v. 218 Oliver Lodge, Balfour, Myers and the others were..as much out of their depth as if Priestley had discovered radioactivity, but not the credulists which subsequent hardliners have made them out to be.
2011 Canberra Times (Nexis) 10 Apr. a27 I suppose, if I told anyone about this miracle, my Garran home would become the focus of a pilgrimage by 30,000 credulists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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