01 a. Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.
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Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.“The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object.” — Coleridge.“According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by “unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs.”” — W. Irving.