desirableness
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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 S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
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 Maud Howe Elliott
The passions of men are not in proportion only to their sensibility, or to the desirableness of the object, but to the violence and irritability of their tempers, and the obstacles to their success.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
Of course, it was now holiday-time, but Miss Ashley had quite agreed with him in the desirableness of Sylvia’s going to Hornton House before the term began.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
While it failed to establish them, it at least recognized the desirableness of a universal language for schools, and a universal church for man.
From History of Education by Levi Seeley
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