applicabilityn.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. v. 36 The action of cold in its greatest height, is composed of two partes; the one is a kind of pressing; and the other, is penetration which requireth applicability.

1662 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica (new ed.) 99 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) There is a continued sutableness and applicability to the Text of Moses all along.

a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) viii. 116 As if those things had no relation nor applicability to other certain things without which they might be conceived.

1769 A. Lee Observ. Rev. Controv. 13 The applicability to the present argument—That parliament and not the house of commons is the representative of England.

1796 E. Burke Thoughts Prospect Regicide Peace ii. 122 Were France but half of what it is in population, in compactness, in applicability of it's force.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. iii. 362 The applicability of gunpowder to purposes of war.

1843 E. A. Poe Purloined Let. in Gift 1845 54 If words derive any value from applicability.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 130 Multiplying the applicabilities, and so the usefulness, of its material.

1900 J. J. Fahie Hist. Wireless Telegr. 197 Sir William Crookes..was..the first to distinctly foresee the applicability of Hertzian waves to practical telegraphy.

1957 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 17 Nov. (1995) 262 There is I suppose applicability in my story to present times.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 June 51/2 Appleby simply denied its applicability to the main currents of eighteenth-century American social and economic life.