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The palpableness and availableness of an object are in proportion as it is separated from its environments.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various

The development of landscape north of the Alps, presents us with the same general phases under modifications dependent partly on less intensity of feeling, partly on diminished availableness of landscape material.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John

Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

St. Augustine seems to deal with the same "just causes" as the Greek Fathers, even though he does not allow of their availableness as depriving untruths, spoken with such objects, of their sinfulness.

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

Perhaps his confidence in the truth and availableness of this view has sometimes led the author to be careless and over-liberal in his concessions to Protestants of historical fact.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal