Both Uses of
accredit
in
The Age of Innocence
- Old Mr. Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New York gentility, throned behind his mahogany desk in evident perplexity.†
Chpt 11 *
- Their own compatriots—save those previously known or properly accredited—they treated with an even more pronounced disdain; so that, unless they ran across a Chivers, a Dagonet or a Mingott, their months abroad were spent in an unbroken tete-a-tete.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(accredit) to recognize or approve -- as with official credentials