Talk:well-found
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Equinox in topic Missing senses?
Missing senses?[edit]
Chambers 1908 has "commendable" and "well-warranted, having good credit". The following citation might be either of these (i.e. financially solvent, or just a good man in general), but isn't either of the senses we have at present:
- 2018, Joan Aiken, The Girl from Paris
- Your pa's a well-found man—a bit clutch-fisted, but there's nowt wrong wi' that, I'm the same road meself, all the more to put by for a rainy day […]