#285 credulity

credulity- disposition to believe something on little evidence; gullibility

also credulous adjective

C16 from Latin credulus, credere to believe

But the reader will begin to suspect that his credulity is about to be solicited for the aërial flights of witches on their sweeping brooms.

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