Obs. [f. prec. + -NESS.] Colorable state or quality; speciousness, plausibility, false pretence.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. ix. 3. The faythfull prayse God sincerely and without colourablenesse.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 534. None of them could (notwithstanding the colourablenesse thereof) prevaile.
1645. T. Coleman, Hopes Deferred, 23. Activenesse without Vnity is but to rise up and fall, a colourablenesse for treachery and murder.
