facility

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FACIL'ITY, noun [Latin facilitas, from facilis, easy.] 1. Easiness to be performed; freedom from difficulty; ease. He performed the work or operation with great facility Though facility and hope of success might invite some other choice. 2. Ease of performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity. Practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art. 3. Pliancy; ductility; easiness to be persuaded; readiness of compliance, usually in a bad sense, implying a disposition to yield to solicitations to evil. It is a great error to take facility for good nature: tenderness without discretion, is no better than a more pardonable folly. 4. Easiness of access; complaisance; condescension; affability. He offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility
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