Now rare. [f. LIABLE + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being liable; liability.
1645. W. Jenkyn, Stil-Destroyer, 40. Our liableness and readiness to be overtaken by it.
1665–6. Pepys, Diary, 31 Jan. By which I am … eased of a liablenesse to pay the sum.
1736. Butler, Anal., I. vi. 117. Our Liableness … to Prejudice and Pervertion.
1869. Wardlaw, Lect. Jas., iv. 65. Mutability and liableness to change.
