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advisableness|ædˈvaɪzəb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
1. Of persons: Readiness to be advised; openness to advice. rare.
1673O. Walker Education (1677) 94 These then promise virtue— modesty, obedience, advisableness.
2. Of things: The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency, propriety.
1731Bailey, vol. II, Advisableness, fitness to be advised, done, etc., expediency. 1755in Johnson n.q. 1853Wayland Mem. Judson II. iii. 109 You inquire about the advisableness of setting up a school at Amherst. 1881Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 428 Lord Coleridge..gently suggested the advisableness of hostile encounters being brought off on a foreign soil. |