a. [f. TRUST sb. + WORTHY a.] Worthy of trust or confidence; reliable.
1808. [implied in TRUSTWORTHINESS].
1829. Lytton, Devereux, VI. iii. Anselmo … was a trustworthy man.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiv. III. 442. The most trustworthy comment on the text of the Gospels and Epistles is to be found in the practice of the primitive Christians.
1874. Ruskin, Fors Clav., IV. xliii. 139. Whatever is set down in Fors for you is assuredly true,…—trustworthy to the uttermost,—however strange.
1889. Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 313. Because he trusted them, they proved themselves trustworthy.
Hence Trustworthily adv., Trustworthiness.
1838. Berrow’s Worcester Jrnl., 27 Dec., 3/3. A governing discretion in his hands, hitherto so *trustworthily sustained.
1851–9. Mallet, in Man. Sci. Enq., 355. Alterations of level may be trustworthily evidenced by changes of depth or run of water.
1870. Daily News, 14 Dec. I am trustworthily informed that [etc.].
1893. W. C. Wilkinson, in Barrows, Parl. Relig., II. 1247. The religion that can trustworthily offer to save.
1808. Edin. Rev., July, 478. The cardinal virtue … of historic composition,—*trustworthiness.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 399/2. The trustworthiness of mild steel.
1885. Clodd, Myths & Dr., I. vii. 115. Criticism is testing without fear or favour the trustworthiness of records of the past.
