serviceableness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SERV'ICEABLENESS, noun 1. Usefulness of promoting good of any kind; beneficialness. All action being for some end, its aptness to be commanded or forbidden must be founded upon its serviceableness or disserviceableness to some end. Norris. 2. Officiousness; readiness to do service.
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