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noun

Credential n.

That which gives a title to credit or confidence.

pl. Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate. "The committee of estates excepted against the credentials of the English commissioners." "Had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Credential" Quotes from Famous Books

... minister can not bind his sovereign to any treaty or agreement, conclusively, under the authority of an ordinary credential, or letter of attorney. He can not do so without a special power, containing express authority so to bind his principal. Ministers act under secret instructions which they are not bound to disclose. Even the treaties signed by plenipotentiaries, ...

— The Government Class Book • Andrew W. Young

... such restraint and protection is not appreciated by those who want places under the Government regardless of merit and efficiency, nor by those who insist that the selection of such places should rest upon a proper credential showing active partisan work. They mean to public officers, if not their lives, the only opportunity afforded them to attend to public business, and they mean to the good people of the country the better performance of ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland

... sight. But then there was no Ananias, no confirming revelation to another. This it was that justified St. Paul as a wise man in regarding the incident as supernatural, or as more than a providential omen. N. B. Not every revelation requires a sensible miracle as the credential; but every revelation of a new series of 'credenda'. The prophets appealed to records of acknowledged authority, and to their obvious sense literally interpreted. The Baptist needed no miracle to attest his right of calling sinners to repentance. ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Words linked to "Credential" : credentials, teacher's certificate, certification, document, certificate, teaching certificate, commission, certificate of incorporation, probate, bill of health, registration