Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being preferable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being preferable.
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- noun The quality or state of being
preferable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The preferableness of such an existence, freed from all unnecessary ceremonies, is still more perceptible when the trip is of long duration and having, moreover, for its terminus the
By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler
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Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance.
On Compromise John Morley 1880
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As soon as we had arrived at this conclusion, I felt so happy in the prospect that I grew quite merry, especially after we had further agreed that, both for the sake of her nerves and for the sake of the lordly surprise, we should bind Connie's eyes so that she should see nothing till we had placed her in a certain position, concerning the preferableness of which we were not of two minds.
The Seaboard Parish, Complete George MacDonald 1864
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Men always act upon their apprehensions of preferableness.
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