10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERCREDULOUS»
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overcredulous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary
Creature: servingcreature. Credible: incredible. Credit: discredit. Credulous:
incredulous; overcredulous. Creep: falsecreeping. Crest: undercrest. Crier:
towncrier. Crimson: encrimsoned. Crook: kneecrooking; lowcrooked. Crop:
uncropped.
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Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on ...
Many of the older records represent only the repetitions by overcredulous
travelers of campfire tales — the creative exercises of some hunter or cowboy
spoofing a tenderfoot. These lengths usually reach such proportions — 10- to 20-
foot ...
Laurence Monroe Klauber, 1972
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Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on ...
Many of the older records represent only the repetitions by overcredulous
travelers of campfire tales — the creative exercises of some hunter or cowboy
spoofing a tenderfoot. These lengths usually reach such proportions — 10- to 20-
foot ...
Laurence Monroe Klauber, 1997
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Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome
... honor-shame syndrome, husbands were responsible for the sexual behavior of
their wives. But the law was not prepared to strip someone of half his property
and relegate him to an island for being a little too stupid, overcredulous, trusting,
...
Thomas A. J. McGinn, 2003
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Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West
... on Tibet, Waddell offers his vision of Tibet's future, when "its sturdy
overcredulous people are freed from the intolerable tyranny of the Lamas, and
delivered from the devils whose ferocity and exacting worship weigh like a
nightmare upon all.
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Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and ...
49 Such exercises in empathetic cross-cultural understanding are particularly
vulnerable to an overcredulous reliance on how the Other represents himself.
Half a century ago Gunnar Myrdal commented, "This trait of singing and dancing
is so ...
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The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan ...
... for Tibet,” he ends his book, “when its sturdy overcredulous people are freed
from the intolerable tyranny of the Lmas, and delivered from the devils whose
ferocity and exacting worship weigh like a nightmare upon all.”7 We have seen
how ...
A notion commonly invoked by critics of professional boxing to explain the sport's
continued existence is that fighters are naive, overcredulous, incompre- hending
or ill-informed as to the real nature of their occupation - in short, dupes (or ...
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loic Wacquant, 2002
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The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Romans and to the ...
As this coming is a thing of great value to you, I earnestly beseech you by it not to
be overcredulous if anyone should affirm on whatever pretext that His day is at
hand.' Since he had made some reference in his previous Epistle to the ...
Jean Calvin, John Calvin, David W. Torrance, 1995
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Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in ...
... in this book collection, had a part in conditioning his mind to a too ready
acceptance of reports of the fabulous "Seven Cities of Cíbola" brought back from
the land of the Pueblo Indians to the north by the overcredulous Friar Marcos de
Niza.
Irving Albert Leonard, 1949
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERCREDULOUS»
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overcredulous is used in the context of the following news items.
Carty '15: Cynicism is easy, and so is naivete
By naivete, I mean that instinctual, overcredulous belief that others are almost always well-intentioned. When one of your moderate, optimistic ... «The Brown Daily Herald, Mar 13»
The (So Far) Failed Promise of Electronic Medical Records
Mickey Kaus . . . er, well, takes the mickey out of overcredulous supporters of EMR. I'm not sure this is entirely fair. I was, as long-time readers ... «Daily Beast, Jan 13»
