Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being qualified or fitted.

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

  • noun The state of being qualified.

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  • noun The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).

Etymologies

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qualified +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • And if now it shall be objected that (notwithstanding all these cautions), should once this sovereignty be acknowledged to be in the diffused body of the people (though the adherents to this cause, not only as their natural, but as their acquired right by conquest), they would suddenly put the use and exercise of the legislative power into such hands as would, through their ill qualifiedness to the work, spoil all by mal-administration thereof, and hereby lose the cause instead of upholding and maintaining it.

    A Healing Question, by Sir Henry Vane 1909

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