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The state of being sightful; perspicuity. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Aptness to start. [R.]

The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison.

Wariness; cautiousness. [Obs.] "Full of warefulness." Sir P. Sidney.

See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness.

The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, wi…

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, w…

Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.

g bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. The lip that curls with bitterness. Percival. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11.

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Boastfulness; act of bragging. Shak.

commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tête-de-pont.