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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



365 words match “ABLENESS”

RELIABILITY n.
The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.
RESOLVABILITY n.
The quality or condition of being resolvable; resolvableness.
RESPIRABILITY n.
The quality or state of being respirable; respirableness.
REVEALABILITY n.
The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.
SALABILITY n.
The quality or condition of being salable; salableness. Duke of Argyll.
SALUBRITY n.
The quality of being salubrious; favorableness to the preservation of health; salubriousness; wholesomeness; healthfulness; as, the salubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate. "A sweet, dry small of salubrity." G. W. Cable.
SALVABILITY n.
The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness. [R.] In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not possible outside the communion of the visible organization. A. V. G. Allen.
SANABILITY n.
The quality or state of being sanable; sanableness; curableness.
SANCTIFY v.
To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to. The holy man, amazed at what he saw, Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. Dryden. Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line. Pope.
SENSIBLENESS n.
Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.
SEPARABILITY n.
Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.
SEPARABLE a.
-- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.
SHADOW n.
A small degree; a shade. "No variableness, neither shadow of turning." James i. 17.
SOCIABILITY n.
The quality of being sociable; sociableness.
SORTANCE n.
Suitableness; agreement. [Obs.] hak.
SUAVITY n.
The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address. Glanvill.
SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY a.
things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under. South.
SUITABILITY n.
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
SUPPLENESS n.
The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
SWEET a.
Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. M. Arnold.
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