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ˈsuitableness
[-ness.]
The quality or condition of being suitable; suitability; † conformity.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 425 That sutablenesse of their Law to their lawlesse lusts of Rapine and Poligamie. 1668Wilkins Real Char. iv. i. 388 These Grammatical Particles are here contrived to such a kind of distinct sutableness, so as each of the several kinds of them, hath a several kind of Character assigned to them. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. §6. 496 The great Suitableness of all the Virtues to each other. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. vi. §95. 614 The superiority of the original, except in suitableness for representation, has long been acknowledged. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 691 The suitableness of its pastures to every sort of animal.
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a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xxix. ⁋5 For a testimonie of constancie, and a sutablenes to his word. 1658Baxter Saving Faith 12 The men..trie not their acts by a sutableness to the object. 1664South Twelve Serm. ii. (1697) II. 91 He, who creates those Sympathies, and sutablenesses of Nature,..and..brings Persons so affected together. 1709T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick System 55 Bearing such a Suitableness and Harmony with the more refined Sense..of the Soul of Man. 1880Mrs. Whitney Odd or Even? ii. 17 It was no use to try to carry out a fancy or a suitableness. |