advisablenessn.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 90 These then promise virtue; modesty, obedience, advisableness.

1781 C. Wesley Let. 12 Nov. in S. T. Kimbrough C. Wesley: Poet & Theologian (1992) 83 My friend's longer or shorter continuance here will depend chiefly on his adviseableness. He is..a mule by nature: but is become..easy to be entreated.

1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. (1 Cor. vii. 1) sig. Bbbbb4^v/1 They had wrote to him..not about the lawfulness of marrying..but concerning the advisableness of marriage.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 56 The Adviseableness of laying aside the use of Lead-sheathing.

1705 E. Calamy Def. Moderate Nonconformity III. 156 I might the more satisfactorily pass a Judgment as to the advisableness or unadvisableness of my acquiescing in him whom the rest had chosen.

1767 Let. to G. G. 56 Some of our ablest governors there..represent against the adviseableness of such a measure.

1853 F. Wayland Mem. Life Judson II. iii. 109 You inquire about the advisableness of setting up a school at Amherst.

1881 Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 428 Lord Coleridge..gently suggested the advisableness of hostile encounters being brought off on a foreign soil.

1941 C. Mackenzie Red Tapeworm xv. 196 Gertrude would have felt doubtful..of the advisableness of letting Joan go planting Michaelmas daisies with this strange woman.

2009 Kalgoorlie Miner (Austral.) (Nexis) 16 Sept. 20 The stormy weather..led to the stewards seriously considering on the night before the races the advisableness of postponing the opening day until today.