[f. LEGIBLE: see -ITY.] The quality or condition of being legible.
1679. J. Goodman, Penitent Pard., I. iv. (1713), 105. The divine goodness did supply that defect, as to the greater lines of vertue and vice, by the plain legibility of his providence.
1812. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXXIX. 181. Perhaps they … should have been accompanied with an expurgatory index, pointing out the papers which it would be fatiguing to peruse, and thus decimating the contents into legibility.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., iv. The words emblazoned in all the legibility of gilt letters and dark shading.
1862. Lady Llanover, in Mrs. Delany’s Corr., Ser. II. III. 289, note. A hand which for clearness, compactness, and legibility exceeded any writing the Editor ever saw.
1880. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, 143. A few slight variations, often repeated, will make a great difference in the legibility of a page, to the eye that is unaccustomed to such variations.
