desirableness
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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
Without questioning the desirableness of this end, of considering general truths without any previous examination of particulars, we may well doubt the power of modern philosophers to attain it.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
As the spring advanced however, though the desirableness of such a move might be more apparent, the difficulty of it as evidently increased.
From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan
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
In almost all warm countries the luxury, almost the necessity, of arcades to protect the passengers from the sun, and the desirableness of large space in the rooms above, lead to the same construction.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
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