unserviceablenessn.
(un- prefix1 6; cf. unserviceable adj.)
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unserviceableness1611
inoperativeness1880
unserviceability1884
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Inutilité,..vnseruiceablenesse.
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 242 The unserviceableness of any thing to Edification.
1683 S. Pepys Diary at Tangier in Life (1841) I. 452 The unserviceableness of the Mole by reason of those winds.
a1832 J. Bentham Draught of Code in Wks. (1843) IV. 399 How many bad and unserviceable ones have, by this very unserviceableness, become popular!
1864 C. M. Yonge Trial II. 20 The unserviceableness of his maimed arm.
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