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单词 desirableness
释义 deˈsirableness
[f. prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality or fact of being desirable.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1843) 34/1 Discourses upon the thing itself, and the desirableness of it.a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 125 Matters of lighter concernment or less desirableness.1817Malthus Popul. III. App. 229 The desirableness of a great and efficient population.1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 384 To discuss..the desirableness of fulfilling the engagement into which he had entered.
2. In active sense: Desirousness. Obs.
1649St. Trials, Lieut.-Col. John Lilburne (R.), To declare my desireableness to keep within the bounds of reason, moderation, and discretion.
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