credence vs expectation

credence

noun
  • A subjective probability estimate of a belief or claim. 

  • Acceptance of a belief or claim as true, especially on the basis of evidence. 

  • Credential or supporting material for a person or claim. 

  • A small table or credenza used in certain Christian religious services. 

  • A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate on open shelves. 

expectation

noun
  • The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. 

  • The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. 

  • The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment. 

  • The arithmetic mean. 

  • The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. 

  • The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank. 

  • That which is expected or looked for. 

How often have the words credence and expectation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )