desirableness
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The desirableness of national or universal education is now generally admitted in all enlightened communities; but there are some who, honestly no doubt, question its practicability.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira
The desirableness of Tom as a husband first forced itself upon her attention, and the undesirableness of Ayala as a wife for Tom.
From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony
This is cited by the Chancery Barrister as showing the advantage of an early acquaintance with foreign languages, and the desirableness of a pure accent.
From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir
The object was to urge the desirableness of allowing books to be borrowed from the Library, after the example of Cambridge.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
There are many instances of the desirableness and the necessity of the transmarine steam post on important lines of foreign communication where we have a large trade, and yet no postal means of conducting it.
From Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Rainey, Thomas
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