rare. [f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being applicable; = APPLICABILITY.

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1661.  Boyle, Style H. Script., 251. A greater Familiarity with … the sense and the applicableness of Scripture.

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1819.  Foster, Evils Pop. Ignor., 224. The soul … acquiring an unwonted applicableness of its faculties to thought.

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