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reasonableness|ˈriːz(ə)nəb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec.]
1.
†a. The quality of being reasonable or rational; rationality. Obs.
c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 27 These folke lyuen lyke bestes without any resonablenes. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike ii. vi. 231* Reasonablenesse is in man vniuersally. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 16 Porphiry..and some others have been bold to make reasonableness not the specifical difference of the Humane Nature.
b. The fact or quality of being amenable to reason, or of acting or thinking in a sensible manner.
1533Udall Floures 168 b, Lette your goodnes or resonablenes be som refuge or succour vnto my folyshnes. 1576Foxe A. & M. (ed. 3) II. 1884/1, I haue heard you talke this houre and a halfe, and can heare no reasonablenes in hym. 1736Butler Anal. i. v. 134 A settled moderation and reasonableness of temper. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke Pref. (1879) 105 The self-restraint, the reasonableness, the chivalrous honour of the men. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 379 For the right inculcation of the method and secret of Jesus, we need the epieikeia, the sweet reasonableness, of Jesus.
2. Of actions, opinions, words, etc.: The fact of being based on, or agreeable to, reason.
1568Queen Elizabeth in H. Campbell Love-lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824) App. 10 They shall..judge thereby the reasonableness of the things propounded. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 23 May I not presume a little further, to shew the reasonablenes of this worde Vates? 1641Smectymnuus Vind. Answ. ii. 44 The reasonablenesse or unreasonablenesse of this we determine not. 1712Spectator No. 524 ⁋2 A serious Reflection on the Reasonableness of Virtue, and great Folly of Vice. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. xli, He saw the reasonableness of her fear. 1825McCulloch Pol. Econ. ii. ii. 74 All have been impressed with the reasonableness of the maxim which teaches that those who sow ought to be permitted to reap. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. viii. 60 To acknowledge the reasonableness of my remarks.
b. Moderateness, cheapness. rare.
1742Fielding J. Andrews ii. xiii, They had no objection to the reasonableness of the bill, but many to the probability of paying it. 1813Guide Watering Places 289 The reasonableness of this place, joined to the beauty of its situation, draws to it a considerable number..during the season. |