[f. prec. + -NESS.] Approvable quality; worthiness of approval.
c. 1812. T. Brown, Philos. Hum. Mind, lxxiii. (1838), 488/2. This irresistible approvableness … constitutes to us … the virtue of the action.
1833. Wardlaw, Chr. Ethics, iii. (1844), 95. The ground of its approvableness.
