Usually means: Belief in or acceptance of.
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  1. credence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. credence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. credence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. credence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. credence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Credence, credence: Wordnik
  7. credence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. credence: Wiktionary
  9. credence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. credence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. credence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Credence, credence: Dictionary.com
  13. credence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. credence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Credence (film), Credence (statistics), Credence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Credence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. credence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. credence: Rhymezone
  19. Credence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. credence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. credence: Free Dictionary
  22. credence: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. credence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. credence: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. credence: Legal dictionary

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  1. credence: Encyclopedia

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  1. credence: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Credence: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (credence)

noun:  (uncountable) Acceptance of a belief or claim as true, especially on the basis of evidence.
noun:  (rare, uncountable) Credential or supporting material for a person or claim.
noun:  (religion, countable) A small table or credenza used in certain Christian religious services.
noun:  (countable) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate on open shelves.
noun:  (countable) A subjective probability estimate of a belief or claim.
verb:  (obsolete) To give credence to; to believe.

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