questionablenessn.

1642 J. Goodwin Anti-cavalierisme 25 And thus much for the first part of my Answer, to shew the questionablenesse, or rather indeed the great unlikelihood of the truth of that testimony.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues ii. xxii. 308 (margin) From the Questionableness whether..there does not as much good redound to the Universe by God's Permission of Sin [etc.].

1777 Observ. Case Dr. Dodd 25 The chief (if not only) circumstance from which Dr. Dodd could derive any expectation of life, was the questionableness of Robinson's evidence.

1791 ‘Layman’ Answer Dr. Priestley's Let. to Edmund Burke 5 When able lawyers are raised to the rank of judges, their existence no longer depends upon the questionableness of property; they then become perfectly distinterested with regard to every cause that comes before them.

1846 T. De Quincey Notes on Gilfillan's Gallery Lit. Portraits in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 249/1 The questionableness of its particular statements.

1867 C. J. Smith Syn. & Antonyms at Apparent The adverb apparently admits the sense of questionableness still more strongly.

1911 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 12 Feb. ii. 1/6 Nothing mailed by Americans compares in questionableness with cards and magazines sent in from France and Italy.

1997 Tax Managem. Internat. Jrnl. (Nexis) 12 Dec. The questionableness of the ruling's approach may be illustrated by the item of income considered in the ruling.