Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality or state of being legible; legibility.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being legible.

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  • noun legibility

Etymologies

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legible +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Robert will direct for me, having faith in his superior legibleness, and I accept the insult implied in the opinion.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • Robert will direct for me, having faith in his superior legibleness, and I accept the insult implied in the opinion.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

  • The saved are too much like the unsaved; the physician is labouring under the disease of his patient; there is no outstanding and commanding difference; we do not, with sufficient legibleness, bear God’s name “in our foreheads.”

    The Passion for Souls 1817-1893 1905

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