solvency

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SOLV'ENCY, noun [Latin solvens.] Ability to pay all debts or just claims; as, the solvency of a merchant is undoubted. The credit of a nation's notes depends on a favorable opinion of its solvency
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