[f. prec. + -NESS.] = CREDIBILITY.
1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 2. If … they … have no manner of conformity with any credibleness of matter.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks. (1772), I. 435 (R.). The credibleness of a good part of these narratives has been confirmed.
1696. trans. Du Mont’s Voy. Levant, 73. The credibleness of this Relation.
