In 4 coupabilnesse. [f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or fact of being culpable; culpability.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 335. Coupabilnesse of synne.
1648. W. Mountague, Devout Ess., I. 145 (T.). My culpablenesse in those particulars.
1694. Kettlewell, Comp. Persecuted, 79. By any culpableness or unadvisedness of my own carriage.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. i. § 40. 26. To show the culpableness … of our common modes of decoration by painted imitation of various woods or marbles.
