applicableness

But that cannot be the design of the expression as it is generally explained; but that the earth in general is to be the subject of this great effect: and the expressions, though they are wont to be applied to the case of particular souls, yet they have a more diffusive applicableness, which is not to be overlooked.

The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

Clara had lately discovered the meaning of the word "plebeian"; more, she believed she comprehended its applicableness.

Different Girls Various

I am aware, that you slaveholders proudly and indignantly reject the applicableness to yourselves of the first phrase in this verse, and also of the maxim, that "the partaker of stolen goods is as bad as the thief."

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

I am aware, that you slaveholders proudly and indignantly reject the applicableness to yourselves of the first phrase in this verse, and also of the maxim, that "the partaker of stolen goods is as bad as the thief."

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Now, your Reverence may be unable to perceive the present applicableness of this parable, but it has its application nevertheless.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

But you were forced to perceive that the common phraseology of the language, those words which make the substance of ordinary discourse on ordinary subjects, had not, for the understandings of these persons, a general applicableness.

An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806

"It (the soul) has been seen filled with a painful and indignant emotion at its own ignorance; actuated with a restless desire to be informed; acquiring an unwonted applicableness of its faculties to thought; attaining a perception combined of intelligence and moral sensibility, to which numerous things are becoming discernible and affecting, that were as non-existent before.

The Young Woman's Guide William A. Alcott 1824