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The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. "Acceptability of repentance." Jer. Taylor.

State of being accepted; acceptableness. "Makes it assured of acceptance." Shak.

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. To account of, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.…

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.

The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [R.] Paley.

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

Admirableness. [R.] Johnson.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

Adorableness.

Profitableness.

The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.

The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness. Thackeray.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

ther derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.