amability
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin amabilitas.
Noun edit
amability (uncountable)
- (obsolete) lovableness
- 1657, Jeremy Taylor, Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship:
- every excellency is a degree of amability
Usage notes edit
- Not to be confused with amiability.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “amability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)