well-credited

Updated: May 10, 2025

Now in translating madame's "Voyage de ma Grandmère," I noticed something equivalent to an interlineation, but in her own writing like all the rest, and added in a perfectly unconcealed, candid manner, at the end of a paragraph near the close of the story. It struck me as an innocent gloss of the copyist, justified in her mind by some well-credited family tradition.

George Washington Cable - Strange True Stories of Louisiana

Legend it is true, attesting to the greatness of the achievement contained in the six little volumes, endows many localities with the fame of their origin. A well-credited contemporary writer, the Rev. Mr Graves says that Fielding then lived in "the first house on the right hand with a spread eagle over the door."

G. M. Godden - Henry Fielding: a Memoir