[f. SOLVENT a.: see -ENCY.] The state of being solvent. Also attrib.

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1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Solvency, paying. Ibid. (1730), (fol.), Solvency, a Paying or Capacity of paying Debts, &c.

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1790.  Burke, Fr. Rev., 338. The debtor prescribing … the medium of his solvency to the creditor.

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1805.  Ann. Rev., III. 293. The reputation for solvency of one institution.

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1844.  H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, I. 533. The bills of private merchants, of whose solvency they could not always feel secure.

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1863.  Fawcett, Polit. Econ., III. ii. 432. All those who place confidence in the solvency of a particular banker.

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1891.  Pall Mall Gaz., 21 Sept., 6/2. The last Blue-book of the Friendly Societies … gives a solvency valuation of 17s. in the pound of the three leading temperance benefit societies.

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