Credulously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a credulous manner.

1641.  Baker, Chron., Edw. IV. an. 1471 (R.). The city of York had too credulously believed King Edward’s oath.

1781.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. 91–2. Sectaries, who credulously received the fables of Ovid, and obstinately rejected the miracles of the Gospel.

1882–3.  Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., 1236. Each may have received too credulously that statement which seemed to favor their own views.