resistibilityn.

1619 W. Balcanquhall Let. 15 Mar. 27 in J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) The Bremenses who handled the head de gratia et libero arbitrio in general, and in particular overthrew resistibility of Grace.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 255 Resistibility, and Irresistibility of grace, which is every Artificers wearing now, was..a language that pure antiquity spake not.

1713 tr. P. Poiret Let. to Mr. Le Clerc 48 in Divine Œconomy VI The Particularity or Universality, the Resistibility or Irresistibility of the Internal Grace of God.

1793 A. Crombie Ess. of Philos. Necessity ii. 189 The Necessarians do not deny the resistibility of motives; but only affirm, that we cannot exercise the power of resistance, without a motive.

1850 J. Brown Disc. & Sayings our Lord (1852) II. xx. 300 This character of resistibility the evidence in favour of Christianity possesses.

c1865 E. C. Wines Ess. on Temptation vi. 56 Fulfilled they surely are not, if the doctrine of the resistibility of temptation be not true.

1914 R. W. Millar tr. R. Garofalo Criminol. iii. ii. 307 Requiring the judge to weigh what is to him an unknown quantity—the resistibility of the criminal impulse.

2001 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Mar. 3 It really does speak volumes about..the infinite resistibility of male genitalia to a vast swathe of the female population that so many of them would rather go to bed with Ted than with Tom, Dick or Harry.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 3 Whether the resistibility of his reason did not equivalence the facility of her seduction. View more context for this quotation

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. vii. 304 The complex Idea of Extension and Resistibility, or Solidity.

1740 T. Short Ess. Hist. Princ. Mineral Waters iii. 261 The Bones in general have attained a greater degree of Solidity, Firmness, and Resistibility of a Viscid Lymph.

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 251 Such was its innate and surpassing resistibility of temperament, that it could not be overwhelmed.

1881 Science 7 May 209/2 Their great tenacity of life, or resistibility against adverse external influences.

1914 Frederick (Maryland) Post 28 July 3/1 Cucumbers..when fresh, are crisp and perfectly digestible, but by soaking in salt water they attain the general resistibility of automobile tires.

1983 Oecologia 60 319/2 A surplus of photosynthates must remain for acquiring resistibility to environmental stresses.

2007 F. B. Nyamnjoh Stories from Abakwa 14 He depended on what he provoked fellow drunkards to bet on his elastic ability to down alcohol and his resistibility to intoxication.