1 acceptance, support, or belief that something is true:
I’d heard rumors over the years, but I never gave them any credence whatsoever.
The fact that both subject types emerge simultaneously lends credence to my account which argues that one licensing mechanism is responsible for both subject types.
This example lends credence the view that the state should be considered not as separate from society but, rather, as an institution embedded within society.
The fact that the experiments used very different methods and probes lends credence to their summative conclusions.
As shown in section 3, preferences for the credence attribute and variety are both important and supporting motives to purchase labeled items.
This adds credence to the argument that mastery of certain constructions is not wholly a function of age or language exposure.
Eco-label programs have developed to provide information to consumers on credence attributes of products.
So many countries have in the past 'sanitised' their data on robots that it became almost impossible to give credence to the resulting statistical tables.
This lends credence to the idea that the campaigns of women for high office probably incorporated images that had more widespread effects on women especially.
