[f. prec. + -NESS.] Soundness of bodily health; ability to work; robustness.
1857. Law Mag., II. 251. And upon the remaining qualification of ‘validité,’ or ‘able-bodiedness,’ our author is yet better justified in asking, ‘How can a child possibly be termed “able-bodied” as the law understands the term?’
1870. Daily News, 8 Sept., 6. The bulk of these gentry are dismissed, and told to make their able-bodiedness available for defending the ramparts.
