[f. AMENABLE: see -ITY.] The quality of being amenable.
1. The liability to answer (to a tribunal); responsibility.
1810. Coleridge, Friend, I. xv. (1867), 67. The mysterious faculty of free-will and consequent personal amenability.
1849. Mill, Ess. (1859), II. 407. A moral responsibility, an amenability to the bar of public opinion.
2. Disposition to respond to; responsiveness, tractableness.
1851. Helps, Comp. Solit., xi. (1874), 206. His amenability to good reasoning.
1861. Bumstead, Vener. Dis. (1879), 629. The extent of the lesions and their amenability to treatment.
