Crossword-Solution: CREDENCES 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Let any one who indulges in this delusion travel in Russia and talk to the inhabitants with reference to the _obrazye_, or go to Kief at the time of a pilgrimage to the mummified saints in that sanctuary, and I think he will then say that no country in the world is so imbued with superstitious credences as Russia.

Himself cradled amongst the mountains, he has drawn with infinite pains, and by slow degrees, as he best could, from the deep interior life of the people, their jealously withheld credences, and the traditions which are sacredly associated with every nook of their craggy district.

Free-will and simple wishing do seem, in the matter of our credences, to be only fifth wheels to the coach.

The sailor's experience, so far from destroying the credences of boyhood,--which included the existence of whole tribes of cannibals,-- had only strengthened his belief in such anthropophagi.

For the generality of instructed men, truth in secular affairs means not merely 'that which is trowed,' but (_a_) that which we have adequate 'reason' to trow, and (_b_) that of which our acceptance is consistent with our way of testing credences of any or all other kinds.