[f. ADROIT + -NESS.] The quality of being adroit; ready skill, dexterity, cleverness, either bodily or mental.
1742. trans. Klimius, Iter Subter., vii. 87. The Person’s dexterity and adroitness.
1850. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xxiii. 226. Henrique … valued himself on his gentlemanly adroitness in all matters of gallantry.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, vi. 55. To Sylla’s combined adroitness and courage Marius owed the final capture of Jugurtha.
