[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being excusable; capability of palliation.
1657. S. W., Schism Dispach’t, 75. In their excusableness is terminated the controversy in hand.
1684. Sharp, Disc. Conscience, 56. The Innocence or Excuseableness of some Mens mistakes.
1754. Edwards, Freed. Will, IV. iii. (ed. 4), 292. Our ideas of excusableness or faultlessness.
1755. in Johnson; whence in mod. Dicts.
