[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or fact of being chargeable: † a. esp. Burdensomeness, costliness, expense (obs.). b. The fact that a thing is accountable, accountability.
1647. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 6. If the chargeableness of that course were the hinderance.
1674. Staveley, Rom. Horseleech (1769), 203. The chargeableness and expensiveness of popery.
1682. 2nd Plea Nonconformists, 29. No respect to his Gray Hairs, [or] the chargeableness of a diseased Body.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 11. Proving the chargeableness of this evil on Lead-sheathing.
