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amenability|əˌmiːnəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. amenable: see -bility.]
The quality of being amenable.
1. The liability to answer (to a tribunal); responsibility.
1789J. Madison Writ. (1904) V. 373 A unity in each has been resolved on, and an amenability to the President alone, as well as to the Senate by way of impeachment. 1810Coleridge Friend i. xv. (1867) 67 The mysterious faculty of free-will and consequent personal amenability. 1849Mill Ess. (1859) II. 407 A moral responsibility, an amenability to the bar of public opinion.
2. Disposition to respond to; responsiveness, tractableness.
1851Helps Comp. Solit. xi. (1874) 206 His amenability to good reasoning. 1861Bumstead Vener. Dis. (1879) 629 The extent of the lesions and their amenability to treatment. |