desirableness
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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
He got out and paced about, calling to her and pointing out the desirableness of the spot as the site for their country home.
From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin
The estimate they have formed of its desirableness.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
Our conclusion on this point is that they tend to overestimate or to underestimate themselves, according to the "desirableness" or "undesirableness" of the trait in question.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.
Speeding hither and thither by rail, her eye caught beauty and desirableness in a flash; the settler stirred in her blood, and she longed to possess and to develop.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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