creditworthyadj.

1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion sig. C.ii Thei vse this demonstration, lo, signifiyng some notable thing neare at hand for credit worthie impression in their memorie.

1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 38 Pliny..had..red in credit worthy autores that Cypros was Ligustrum.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. ix. 13 Reported by credit-worthy writers.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. xxv Unprofane, or good Books..some of which, of one Sort or other, I am almost daily informed, by many credit-worthy Eye-Witnesses, may be seen lying on every Bawd's and Strumpet's Toilet.

1822 Literary Speculum Feb. 280 Ye'll then be kenning the difference atween a clishmaclaver tale o' a tub, and a serious an' credit-worthy narration.

1856 Notes & Queries 1 455/2 I have heard it from credit-worthy persons in my early days, that they remembered bodies having been brought from great distances, to be interred there.

1908 O. M. Hueffer Bk. Witches iv. 71 Many natives have died—as has been vouched for by hundreds of credit-worthy witnesses—for no more tangible reason than fear at having incurred the curse of desecrating something placed under its protection.

1994 G. Stygall Trial Lang. i. 14 Jurors perceived that hypercorrection by a lower-status witness was less creditworthy.

1840 Manch. Times 21 Nov. In the greater number of cases in which parties obtained credit, they did so by attempting to show that they were credit-worthy.

1891 Rep. Comm. Housing of Poor (Presbytery of Glasgow) 96 The ordinary trader can stop credit to a customer as soon as he finds that customer is not credit-worthy.

1940 Economist 5 Oct. 431/1 Every bank manager will sincerely testify to his liking for farmers' loans—provided the borrower is credit worthy.

1960 Times 22 Jan. 20/2 The Banks..are increasingly interested in offering accommodation to credit-worthy farmers.

2005 J. Winpenny Guaranteeing Devel.? i. 21 These bodies need to reform..to become more efficient and creditworthy.

1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Mar. 59/3 The specification of ‘fourpence in ha'pence’, though in reality nonsense, carries the day; it gives a plausibility and credit-worthiness to the demand that could not otherwise be obtained.

1853 Chambers's Pocket Misc. XVIII. 90 A respectable person gave testimony to the creditworthiness of this strange history.

1868 Chambers's Encycl. II. 95/1 A merchant in New York will sell his bills to a broker or dealer in this kind of instrument, the price paid being according to the state of the money-market and the creditworthiness of the acceptor.

1940 Economist 5 Oct. 431/2 The guaranteed prices which the farmers were granted..removed at one stroke the credit worthiness of the industry.

1984 D. A. Pailin Attitudes to Other Relig. vi. 94 In spite of their multisided attacks on Mahomet's creditworthiness, they do occasionally use his views on certain points when they support the Christian case.

2010 Independent 21 June (Viewspaper section) 2/3 If drastic action is not taken, Britain's creditworthiness will be threatened while in the long term future generations will be saddled with monstrous levels of debt.