advantageousnessn.

?1649 H. Hammond Of Reasonableness Christian Relig. iii. 95 Though advantageousness no way contributes to the making, or proving a thing to be true or false, yet it doth to the making it more or less worth beleiving, or embracing.

1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God §18. 117 The last Property which qualify's God the fittest Object for our Love..is the Advantagiousness of His to us.

1702 Hist. France to 1702 II. ix. iv. 1067 Now the Duke of Savoy also on his part considering the Advantageousness of the Post.

1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little v. 40 The Advantageousness of the Match soon prevailed with her Parents.

1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. v. 90 The advantageousness of trade.

1887 Times 24 Dec. 9/5 The extraordinary advantageousness of a compulsory levy upon its private revenues for public purposes.

1920 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 25 390 The relative advantageousness of physical environments for sustaining, energizing, and stimulating pluralistic life is a factor of all social phenomena.

1972 I. H. Light Ethnic Enterprise in Amer. (1973) iii. 58 The Orientals had always the option of falling back on rotating credit, which, apart from its advantageousness, they preferred on cultural grounds.

2005 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 99 Her five daughters' futures are only as secure as the advantageousness of their marriages.