[f. prec.] The character or condition of being valuable.
1683. Lorrain, trans. Muret’s Rites Fun., To Rdr. 4. Which having said with regard to the valuableness of the Subject, I shall only add [etc.].
1721. T. Thomas, Pref. Urry’s Chaucer, p. l. The valuableness of it will appear by the use which has been made of it in the Glossary.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat., I. II. xxiv. 134. There lies a nearer way for good qualities to arrive at their valuableness.
1865. J. Grote, Moral Ideals, vi. (1876), 71. And then it may be that the valuableness of actions varies as their usefulness.
