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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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CONGENIALITY n.
The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds.
CONGRUENCE n.
Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. Holland.
CONNOTE v.
in the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.
CONSONANCE; CONSONANCY n.
Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall.
CONTROLLABILITY n.
Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY n.
The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency, Let me have judgment. Shak.
CROAK v.
rebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.
CURABILITY n.
The state of being curable; curableness.
DAMNABILITY n.
The quality of being damnable; damnableness. Sir T. More.
DECORUM n.
Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable. Negligent of the duties and decorums of his station. Hallam. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you mu…
DELICACY n.
The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton.
DEMONSTRABILITY n.
The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
DEPLORABILITY n.
Deplorableness. Stormonth.
DESIRABILITY n.
The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.
DESPICABILITY n.
Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.
DETERMINABILITY n.
The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.
DISAGREEMENT n.
Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. [R.]
DISCERPIBILITY; DISCERPTIBILITY n.
Capability or liableness to be discerped. [R.] Wollaston.
DISCONGRUITY n.
Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness. Sir M. Hale.
DISCONVENIENCE n.
Unsuitableness; incongruity. [Obs.] Bacon.
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