noun [U] (formal)
1 a quality that an idea or a story has that makes you believe it is true:
Historical evidence lends credence to his theory.
2 belief in sth as true:
They could give no credence to the findings of the survey. * Alternative medicine has been gaining credence (= becoming more widely accepted) in recent years.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for credence is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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