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1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum 13 The vast Comprehensiveness, great Variety, and Frequent Difficulties of the Subject-Matter; As also mine earnest endeavours after Practicalness and Perspicuity therein..have occasioned this prolixity.

1688 J. Sergeant Fifth Catholick Let. 67 The force I put in the Practicalness of Tradition is, that, supervening to the Oral delivery, or being consonant to it, it confirms it, and makes it more Visible.

1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence ii. 73 The practicalness of Prudence as distinct from pure Theory chiefly consists, in that it contemplates Truth for the sake of Good.

1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) Pref. sig. A4 I shall therefore confine what I have to communicate within the limits of Practicalness and Usefulness.

1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 217 From it he doubtless derived the practicalness (if the word may be pardoned) in which the more purely speculative Frenchmen of the present day..are generally deficient.

1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ix. 290 A stringent practicalness worthy of Franklin.

1903 Science 15 May 787/2 Teachers who have tested in actual class work the usefulness and practicalness of the innovation.

1992 Jrnl. Japanese Stud. 18 615 Dreams of universal humanity, Japanese uniqueness, moral righteousness, hard-nosed practicalness, or theoretical rigor.

2002 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 21 Feb. 1 r. Because of their practicalness and brilliance they worked with us.