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agreeability|əˌgriːəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
Also 4 agreablete.
[In 14th c. a. OFr. agréableté n. of state, f. agréable: see agreeable and -ty. Obsolete for 400 years, and then freshly formed on agreeable: see -bility. In Fr. agréableté was still in Cotgr. 1611; obs. in the Academy's Dict. and in Littré; revived in 1860 by Ste.-Beuve as agréabilité.]
The quality of being agreeable; agreeableness, especially of disposition.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. 1099 Al fortune is blisful to a man by þe agreablete or by þe egalite of hym þat suffreþ it [ed. 1560 aggreeability]. [Not in any Dict. of 16th, 17th, 18th c. In Todd 1818 only from Chaucer as above.]1778F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1854) I. 53 She was all good humour..and agreeability. (Surely I may make words when at a loss, if Dr. Johnson does.) 1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. v. 105 His house was the focus of agreeability. 1854Thackeray Newcomes II. 4 Remarkable for rank, fashion and agreeability. |