[f. prec. + -NESS.] Commendable quality, praiseworthiness.
a. 1639. W. Whately, Prototypes, I. xix. (1640), 225. No man else can finde any commendablenesse in them.
1754. Edwards, Freed. Will., IV. i. 193. The Essence of Vertuousness or Commendableness.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), II. 130. The commendableness of industry.
