[f. prec. + -NESS.]

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  † 1.  Capability of producing a desired result; efficacy. Obs.

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1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., 225. The efficacy, or availableness, or accommodation, or suitableness of these Reductives to the end proposed.

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  2.  = AVAILABILITY 1, 1 b.

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1837.  J. H. Newman, Proph. Off. Ch., 41. The accuracy and availableness of their existing Tradition.

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1841.  Emerson, Conserv. (1875), II. 274. It goes for availableness in its candidate and not for worth.

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