Creditableness. World English Historical Dictionary

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[f. prec. + -NESS.]

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  † 1.  Worthiness of being believed; credibility.

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1677.  Cary, Chronol., II. II. III. x. 243. The Creditableness of this Hypothesis.

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1682.  Disc. Addresses agst. Association, 13. Consider of the Quality and Creditableness of the Witnesses.

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  2.  The quality or condition of being creditable or in good repute.

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1647.  Hammond, Power of Keys, v. 117. The creditablenesse of an unchristian, impious life, so long as they may be allowed but the Christian name.

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1667.  Decay Chr. Piety, ii. § 17. 215. The creditableness and repute of customary vices.

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1816.  Coleridge, Statesm. Man., Biogr. Lit. (1882), 364. The discovery that they could purchase the decencies and the creditableness of religion at so small an expenditure of faith.

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