rationality

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RATIONAL'ITY, noun 1. The power of reasoning. God has made rationality the common portion of mankind. 2. Reasonableness. Well directed intentions, whose rationalities will not bear a rigid examination.
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