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Credibility   /krˌɛdəbˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Credibility

noun
1.
The quality of being believable or trustworthy.  Synonyms: believability, credibleness.



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"Credibility" Quotes from Famous Books



... piano. Useless, once more! Though she shrank from confessing it to herself, Mrs. Glenarm's belief in the genuineness of her lover's defense had been shaken. The tone taken by Julius—moderate as it was—revived the first startling suspicion of the credibility of Geoffrey's statement which Anne's language and conduct had forced on Mrs. Glenarm. She dropped into the nearest chair, and put her handkerchief to her eyes. "You always hated poor Geoffrey," she said, with ...
— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins

... conjunction, conforming in such particulars, did really take place within the latter half of the fourteenth century: if it was considered worth while to search out a described conjunction 2500 years before Christ, in order to test the credibility of Chinese records, it would surely be not less interesting to confirm the accuracy of Chaucer's astronomy, of his fondness for which, and of his desire to bring it forward on all possible occasions, he has given so many proofs ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 • Various

... recreancy is loud through all the land,—now, when we have immediately in view, and on the largest scale, an open patronage of infamous wrong-doing, so brazen-fronted and blush-proof that only the spectacle itself makes its credibility;—the prior possibility of it we should one and all hasten, for the honor of human nature, to deny. Yet in the midst of all this are visible the victorious influences that mould the imported Teuton ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various

... device for combining the inertia of a wooden idol with the credibility of a flesh and ...
— Maxims for Revolutionists • George Bernard Shaw

... of the legend is not, nor should it be, a proof of belief in Christ and Christianity. This view is well voiced by Rev. Dr. Campbell, in his "New Theology," when he says "The credibility and significance of Christianity are in no way affected by the doctrine of the Virgin Birth, otherwise than that the belief tends to put a barrier between Jesus and the race, and to make him something that cannot properly be called human.... Like many others, I used to take the position ...
— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka


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