[f. ACCREDIT + -ING1.] The action of vouching for or furnishing with credentials. (Mostly gerundial.)
1834. Southey, Doctor, cxvii. 285 (1862). I have wronged Job’s wife by accrediting a received calumny.
1850. Alison, Hist. Europe, VIII. lv. § 10. 566. The effects … appeared in the accrediting of Russian ambassadors to the courts of these infant sovereigns.
1872. W. Minto, Eng. Lit., Introd. 24. There is not so much unanimity in accrediting him with dignity.
