Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being estimable; the quality of deserving esteem or regard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of deserving
esteem orregard .
Etymologies
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estimable + -ness
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Examples
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While Mr. Britling was patrolling unimportant roads and entertaining Mr. Van der Pant with discourses upon the nearness of victory and the subtle estimableness of all that was indolent, wasteful and evasive in English life, the war was passing from its first swift phases into a slower, grimmer struggle.
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The motivations behind these requests vary, as do their levels of estimableness.
mySociety 2008
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