desirableness
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Heart and brain were strained and sore; if she could be still till she died, Diana felt it to be the utmost limit of desirableness.
From Diana by Warner, Susan
A penitentiary may be described as a place of punishment and reward; and under the system proposed the difference in desirableness between a sentence and an appointment would be virtually effaced.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)
We have dwelt on one point—the desirableness, if not necessity, of shortness in them—as specially valuable at the time.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
We think these passages interesting, because they are entirely opposed to the modern ideas of the desirableness of yellow lights and green blues, which have been introduced chiefly by the study of altered pictures.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John
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
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