Preferrableness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of preferableness. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "And for this Reason I have ſet down among the Inſtances belonging to particular Qualities ſome ſuch Experiments and Obſervations, as we are now ſpeaking of, ſince, although they be not direct proofs of the preferrableneſs of our Doctrine, yet they may ſerve for Confirmation of it;"

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"And for this Reason I have ſet down among the Inſtances belonging to particular Qualities ſome ſuch Experiments and Obſervations, as we are now ſpeaking of, ſince, although they be not direct proofs of the preferrableneſs of our Doctrine, yet they may ſerve for Confirmation of it;"

Etymology

From preferrable + -ness.

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