? Obs. Also facilnes(s. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being facile; easiness to be persuaded; easy good nature; pliancy.
1549. Compl. Scot., xi. 94. The cite of gabine, throcht there facilnes, gef hasty credit to sextus tarquinus. Ibid., 97. That ȝour facilnes be nocht sedusit be ther astuce and subtil persuasions.
1647–8. Joseph Beaumont, Psyche, XVII. cxcvii. Others they with facileness befriend!
a. 1665. J. Goodwin, Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόν; or, A Being Filled with the Spirit (1867), 292. Some have a kind of goodness and facileness of disposition, with some other impressions of morality, commendable in their kind, and commodious to a degree.
1727–36. in Bailey.
1775. Ash, s.v. Easiness, facility.
