Also 4 agreablete. [In 14th c. a. OFr. agréableté n. of state, f. agréable: see AGREEABLE and -TY. Obsolete for 400 years, and then freshly formed on agreeable: see -ITY. In Fr. agréableté was still in Cotgr. 1611; obs. in the Academy’s Dict. and in Littré; revived in 1860 by Ste-Beuve as agréabilité.] The quality of being agreeable; agreeableness, especially of disposition.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boethius, 1099. Al fortune is blisful to a man by þe agreablete or by þe egalite of hym þat suffreþ it [ed. 1560 agreeability]. [Not in any Dict. of 16th, 17th, 18th c. In Todd, 1818, only from Chaucer as above]
1778. Miss Burney, Diary & Lett. (1854), I. 53. She was all good humour … and agreeability. (Surely I may make words when at a loss, if Dr. Johnson does.)
1839. Lady Lytton, Cheveley (ed. 2), I. v. 105. His house was the focus of agreeability.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, II. 4. Remarkable for rank, fashion and agreeability.
