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1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. 406 They..blessed God, for that communicativenesse of his goodnesse, that he had afforded the same mercy to the Gentiles, as to the Jewes.

1654 J. Sheffield Rising Sun ix. 58 The Magistrate, who was wont to be emblem'd..by a fountaine, to denote their communicativenesse.

1672 Mede's Wks., Author's Life p. xxxviii His communicativeness in ordinary Discourse.

a1703 R. Hooke Present State Nat. Philos. in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 29 Concerning the Solidity or Fluidity of the Æther..and of the Transparency and Communicativeness of it as a Medium.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. v. 74 I made my humblest Acknowledgment to this illustrious Person for his great Communicativeness.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xliv. 300 To come at all Mr. Lovelace's secrets, and even, from his careless communicativeness, at some of mine.

1800 R. Bisset Douglas II. iv. 145 ‘Tom was himself a shoemaker,’ (continued the barber, whose natural communicativeness was still farther increased by liquor).

1820 T. Hodgskin Trav. N. Germany I. ii. 55 After the usual salutation..they immediately told me they were cloth makers, and were going to Leipsic fair[.] This sort of communicativeness is an apology for curiosity.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 217 The communicativeness of Hamlet, and his tendency to soliloquize.

1923 Mod. Lang. Rev. 18 95 In taking the first year of child-speech Jespersen is selecting rather a pre-linguistic or preparatory stage, one marked by expressiveness rather than communicativeness.

1960 F. Jonas tr. I. Nestyev Prokofiev x. 354 Prokofiev's early sonatas..with their more direct emotional communicativeness, proved more accessible and satisfying to the average audience.

2007 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 23 Dec. c1 They are eager to assimilate, looking for someone willing to guide them, accept them, help them test their communicativeness in a language most difficult to master.