notablenessn.

c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 144 (MED) Ye be in the way to by ryght a grete kyng and myghty of armys and of havir and of notablenes.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Ff.i^v The notablenesse of the place, beyng the very begynnyng of the very lyuyng Lordes lawe.

1708 C. Cibber Lady's last Stake iii. 31 If this Girl's Character were in a Play, People that had not seen it wou'd swear the notableness of her Head were above Nature.

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 238 In notableness of lateral precipice, the Matterhorn..stands..unrivalled among the Alps.

1858 Rotteck's Hist. World 320 Their multitude is prejudicial to the notableness of particular exploits.

1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2958/2 All birthdays are notable, but the notableness..of our twenty-first is of a quite unique character.

1745 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 358 I don't at all doubt my sister's notableness; I think she has blended in her composition, beyond any body I know, the excellences of a good economist with the elegance of a fine lady.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xliii. 273 Does it not look as if she would have been an useful creature in the days of nightrail and notableness, had she been a wife in good time?

1799 R. Warner Let. 4 Sept. in Walk Western Counties (1800) 53 A perseverance and notableness..unknown amongst the fair ones of modern days.

1852 M. G. L. Duncan Amer. as I found It 310 Much that is the fruit of taste, ingenuity, and notableness is to be procured there—specially the pretty patched quilts.

1860 G. Borrow Wild Wales xxxii. 196 A little stubby girl of about eight..dressed in a chintz gown, a little bonnet on her head, and looking the image of notableness.