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amiability|ˌeɪmɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next: see -bility. App. a mod.Eng. formation, though the cognate amiableté common in OFr. was still in use in beg. of 17th c. See also amability.]
1. The quality of being amiable (in the modern sense); amiableness.
1807Edin. Rev. X. 439 It is quite painful to look at such terms as womanised, amiability. 1817Ticknor Life I. 111 Which in France is called amiability but which everywhere else would be called flattery. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xiv. (C.D. ed.) 104 They were delighted with his amiability.
2. Lovableness (better expressed by amability).
1869Goulburn Purs. Holiness vii. 62 The amiability of God consists in his moral perfections. |