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Synonyms for accredit

Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-kred-it
Phonetic Transcription : əˈkrɛd ɪt

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Définition of accredit

Origin :
  • 1610s, from French accréditer, from à "to" (see ad-) + créditer "to credit" (someone with a sum), from crédit "credit" (see credit). Related: Accredited; accrediting.
  • verb attribute responsibility or achievement
  • verb give authorization or control
Example sentences :
  • If I want human evidence to accredit the word of God, it is not the word of God to me.
  • Extract from : « The Great Commission » by C. H. (Charles Henry) Mackintosh
  • He could not accredit man's professions, or endorse his pretensions.
  • Extract from : « Notes on the book of Exodus » by C. H. (Charles Henry) Mackintosh
  • All evil do I accredit to thee: therefore do I desire of thee the good.
  • Extract from : « Thus Spake Zarathustra » by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Her appearance, if we are to accredit contemporary statements, must have been extremely singular.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. » by Mrs. Thomson
  • The most obvious and palpable facts discredit these Judaists and accredit me.
  • Extract from : « Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians » by James Denney
  • What an insult to the dignity of Scripture to imagine that any human seal or guarantee is necessary to accredit it to the soul!
  • Extract from : « The Great Commission » by C. H. (Charles Henry) Mackintosh
  • An absolute criterion of truth must at once accredit itself, as well as other things.
  • Extract from : « History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) » by John William Draper
  • Accredit, to give one credentials should be distinguished from credit, to believe what one says.
  • Extract from : « Word Study and English Grammar » by Frederick W. Hamilton
  • Regarded by Macedonian as a hotbed of much nationalism but little learning – the Macedonians refused to accredit it.
  • Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin
  • They accredit that view with being strictly one, supposing that all qualified to arbitrate would acquiesce and agree in the same.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Rationalism » by Charles Robert Newman

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