Noun
One who credits, believes, or trusts.
One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. James Howell
Indeed, India has become notorious as a country in which a very large part of the working population is laboring in effective debt peonage to a landlord or other creditor. David Graeber
If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year. Hammurabi
The creditor gets a pledge from the good payer. Sicilian Proverb
A stern creditor is a poor payer. Swedish Proverb
Be kind to the debtor and he becomes the creditor. Persian Proverb