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ˈcapableness
[f. capable + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being capable (in various senses); capability.
1587Golding De Mornay xv. (1617) 261 So it [the mind] should euermore haue brought the ability and capablenesse of it into act. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 27 Whereunto these ventricles serue, and their large or narrow capablenesse for the reasonable soule, all shall bee told by vs. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 289 Where there is no capablenesse of faith, there ought to bee no baptisme. 1680R. Mansel Narr. Popish Plot 7 She there examined his capableness for business. 1731Bailey, Appeasableness, capableness of being pacified. |