suitablenessn.

1580 Holie Exercise True Fast (rev. ed.) 21 It is meete that there should be a certaine conformitie and sutablenesse of our whole behauiour, all the time of the fast.

1658 R. Baxter Of Saving Faith 12 The men..trie not their acts by a sutableness to the object.

1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. 55 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland Bearing such a Suitableness and Harmony with the more refined Sense..of the Soul of Man.

1880 A. D. Whitney Odd or Even? ii. 17 It was no use to try to carry out a fancy or a suitableness.

2003 Church Times 3 Oct. 12/1 Kairos has a sense of fitness, of a limited period of time marked by a suitableness of circumstances, the right time.

1594 L. Lewkenor tr. O. de la Marche Resolued Gentleman f. 16^v The longer you liue, the more shall it [sc. a fayre siluer Gorget of Mayle] conforme the colour of your heare and beard in sutablenesse to the same.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. i. 388 These Grammatical Particles are here contrived to such a kind of distinct sutableness, so as each of the several kinds of them, hath a several kind of Character assigned to them.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. §6. 496 The great Suitableness of all the Virtues to each other.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 691 The suitableness of its pastures to every sort of animal.

2016 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 21 Sept. 16 Some of the appeal [sc. of livestream] doubtlessly springs from the same sources that fuelled slow TV:..its suitableness for putting on merely in the background.