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1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. P7 Making you to beleeue, that to become a roister is credite.

1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 784 Such as prowdly boast of their famous countrey, esteeme it a credit to beare the denomination thereof.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 104 This is much credit to you. View more context for this quotation

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 2 Conceiving it more credit..to go then to be driven away.

1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 8 Mar. He..may be a Credit to the College.

1754 J. Hill Urania at Zahala It is a credit to those who gave it originally, it signifies something that goes backward, and was a term therefore very properly given to that planet.

1791 J. Lackington Memoirs xxi. 159 These worthy gentlemen belong to Mr. Wesley's Society, (and notwithstanding they have imbibed many enthusiastic whims) yet would they be an honour to any society, and are a credit to human nature.

1825 Husband Hunting III. xi. 132 When your honour got promotion—when the Gazette came in that night, my master made me read every syllable of it—said that you were a credit to the name of Vaughan.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vi. 55 You are a credit to the school.

1911 ‘K. Howard’ Cheerful Knave xvi Breakfast? Yer a credit to yer calling, I don't think.

1954 Life 26 July 83 The low-priced furnishings are now so well styled that they are a credit to any room in the house.

2007 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 Mar. 26/1 It's a credit to her and her campaign that she has moderated her personality step by step.