[f. next: see -ITY. App. a mod. Eng. formation, though the cognate amiableté common in OFr. was still in use in beg. of 17th c. See also AMABILITY.]
1. The quality of being amiable (in the modern sense); amiableness.
1807. Edin. Rev., X. 439. It is quite painful to look at such terms as womanised, amiability.
1817. Ticknor, Life, I. 111. Which in France is called amiability but which everywhere else would be called flattery.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xiv. (C. D. ed.), 104. They were delighted with his amiability.
2. Lovableness (better expressed by AMABILITY).
1869. Goulburn, Purs. Holiness, vii. 62. The amiability of God consists in his moral perfections.
