[f. prec. + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being equable; EQUABILITY, in various senses.

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1641.  J. Symonds, Serm. bef. Ho. Comm., C b. Wee … should walk towards God with truth, æquablenesse, and certainty.

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1736.  in Bailey.

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1877.  E. R. Conder, Bas. Faith, iv. 163. Smoothness (that is, equableness of surface).

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1880.  Nature, XXIII. No. 582. 184. A like equableness from year to year characterises the temperature and rainfall of the climate.

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