disciplinableness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

disciplinable +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

disciplinableness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being disciplinable.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
      We find in animals […] something of Sagacity , Providence , Disciplinableness , and a something like unto a Discursive Ratiocination

References[edit]

“disciplinableness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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