[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being equitable.
1643. Nethersole, Proj. for Peace (1648), 5. The justice or equitablenesse of any … Article of the Project.
1797. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 74/2. The public would give them credit for its equitableness.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, III. iv. 77. He was so thoroughly assured as to the perfect equitableness of the transaction.
