laudableness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LAUD'ABLENESS, noun The quality of deserving praise; praiseworthiness; as the laudableness of designs, purposes, motives or actions. [Laudability, in a like sense, has been used, but rarely.]
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