Dictionary entry

Credence

Pronunciation: /ˈkriːd(ə)ns/

Pronunciation

/ˈkriːd(ə)ns/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) မှန်ကန်ကြောင်း ယုံကြည် လက်ခံမှု။ ယုံကြည်လက်ခံလာစေမှု။

Definition

credence /'kri:dns/ n [U] ( fml ) (က) မွန္ကန္ေၾကာင္း ယံုၾကည္ လက္ခံမႈ။ I give/ attach little credence to such rumours. (ခ) ယံုၾကည္လက္ခံလာေစမႈ။ a theory gaining credence in Whitehall ❍ The evidence gives/ lends credence to his arguments.

Examples

  1. The notion that our mental state affects our physical health is gaining credence.
  2. It was too silly an idea for Chrissy to give any credence to it.
  3. The recent discovery of the largest meteorite crater in Europe gives credence to Prof Solomon’s theory.