[f. prec. + -NESS.]
† 1. Worthiness of being believed; credibility.
1677. Cary, Chronol., II. II. III. x. 243. The Creditableness of this Hypothesis.
1682. Disc. Addresses agst. Association, 13. Consider of the Quality and Creditableness of the Witnesses.
2. The quality or condition of being creditable or in good repute.
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.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, ii. § 17. 215. The creditableness and repute of customary vices.
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.
