[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or fact of being tolerable.
1. Allowableness: cf. prec. 2.
1612. J. Mason, Anat. Sorc., 60. Not so much to confirme the lawfulnesse … as to induce or insinuate a tolerablenesse in regard of the necessity … thereof.
1644. J. Goodwin, Innoc. Triumph. (1645), 33. Questioning the Orthodoxisme, yea, the tolerablenesse of the … Doctrine.
2. Capability of being borne or endured; bearableness, endurableness: cf. prec. 1.
a. 1678. Woodhead, Holy Living (1688), 39. Practising … the inconveniences and sufferings of poverty, to try by the tolerableness of these the unnecessariness of wealth.
