creditablenessn.

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

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety ii. 36 The creditableness and repute of customary vices.

1701 J. Collier tr. M. Aurelius Conversat. with Himself ii. xi. 22 Pleasure and Pain; Riches and Poverty, all these Things are the common Allotment of the Virtuous and Disorderly; why so? Because they have nothing of intrinsick Creditableness, or Scandal in their Nature.

1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 342 Mense, manners; creditableness.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. E p. xliii The discovery that they could purchase the decencies and the creditableness of religion at so small an expenditure of faith.

1894 J. A. McKlveen in Trans. National Eclectic Med. Assoc. (1895) 22 46 To permit each school of practice, or its representative Board, to be the judge of the qualifications of its own physicians, and the creditableness of its medical colleges.

1921 B. Crowell & R. F. Wilson Giant Hand Pref. p.xvi Either one of the extreme opinions as to the creditableness of our munitions production was, perhaps, tenable; but neither one alone was quite the truth.

1986 J. T. Leerssen Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael iii. 103 The fact that some perjured witnesses in the Plot happened to be of Irish origin did little to improve the creditableness of Irishmen in England.

2009 M. Schoenfield Brit. Periodicals & Romantic Identity i. ii. 70 Money, in this example, is a material form that circulates by virtue of its inherent utility, despite the precarious creditableness of its backers.

1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 137 How great and fatal a snare this creditableness of sin has proved: I feare there are too many thousands of entangled Soules can witness.

1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica ii. ii. iii. x. 243 The Creditableness of this Hypothesis.

1682 Disc. Addr. against Assoc. 13 Consider of the Quality and Creditableness of the Witnesses.

1711 Full Answer conc. Birth Pretended Prince of Wales 31 That they might have insisted the more warrantable on the creditableness of their testimony.

1884 in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1917) 14 140/1 The movement, in fact, was known in Washington's camp on Nov. 29th, as a letter of General Armstrong proves, and this destroys the creditableness of the romantic story of Lydia Darragh. The entire story is unworthy of credence.

1921 Imperial & Asiatic Q. Rev. 21 76 The creditableness of the history of the Patriarchs.

2001 J. Magee Barney v. 74 The report had low creditableness.