1643. Hammond, Serm., Wks. 1684, IV. 511. He … that abstains only from uncreditable or unfashionable, from branded or disused sins.
1688. Collier, Several Disc. (1725), 2. The Design … being to make all Injustice and Encroachment an uncreditable, as well as an unprofitable Practice.
1710. Palmer, Proverbs, 342. A brawl, in which both parties use a hundred impertinent and uncreditable expressions.
1782. Paley, Serm., 21 Sept. The vocation in time comes to be thought mean and uncreditable.
1818. Bentham, Ch. Eng., Catech. Exam., 427. No need has he of any such uncreditable and hazardous practice.
1866. Illustr. Lond. News, 1 Dec., 526. The credit which Mr. … has received … is very uncreditable to the English nation.
Hence Uncreditableness.
1667. Causes Decay Chr. Piety, xix. 419. To all other disswasives we may add this of the Uncreditableness.
