† appliablenessn.
Obsolete.
The quality of being appliable (in various senses); compliance, pliableness; (also) suitability.Frequent in the (posthumously published) prose works of John Donne.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [noun] > willingness to serve or help
appliableness1587
officiousness1596
appliancea1616
helpfulness1644
society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [noun] > compliancy
correspondence1530
suppleness?1570
pliantness1578
appliableness1587
correspondency1587
flexibleness1623
complacence1626
complacency1651
complaisance1651
pliancy1663
compliance1667
compliableness1684
flexibility1703
complaisancy1710
compliancy1765
pliability1768
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1402/2 Hir maiestie might perceiue the appliablenesse of those hir people.
a1631 J. Donne Paradoxes (1652) 53 Perchance her divers names shewed her appliableness to divers men.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 43 This is Vis ratiocinatrix, The holy gentlenesse and appliablenesse, implied in that forme of a Man [sc. a minister of God].
1654 J. Hall Of Govt. & Obed. iv. 439 This comprehension cannot be well made at first sight, but according to appliableness of the organ, and intention of mind in the learner.
1684 R. Boyle Exper. Porosity of Bodies Pref. Particular instances, whose applyableness and usefulness to explain divers obscure Phænomena may hereafter appear much greater.
1831 J. A. La Trobe Music of Church vii. 274 He acknowledges as well the beauty of this interchange of service, as its appliableness to human infirmity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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