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ˈtolerableness
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality or fact of being tolerable.
1. Allowableness: cf. prec. 2.
1612J. Mason Anat. Sorc. 69 Not so much to confirme the lawfulnesse..as to induce or insinuate a tolerablenesse in regard of the necessity..thereof. 1644J. Goodwin Innoc. Triumph. (1645) 33 Questioning the Orthodoxisme, yea, the tolerablenesse of the..Doctrine.
2. Capability of being borne or endured; bearableness, endurableness: cf. prec. 1.
a1678Woodhead Holy Living (1688) 39 Practising..the inconveniences and sufferings of poverty, to try by the tolerableness of these the unnecessariness of wealth. |