credent

credent (comparative more credent, superlative most credent)

1. (obsolete) Gullible.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 28–31:

     Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.

• credence

• centred, red cent

crēdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of crēdō

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛdɛnt/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkreːdɛnt/, /ˈkrɛdɛnt/

credent (literary)

1. third-person plural imperfect/conditional/imperative of credu