[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being unadvisable: a. Of persons.
1771. Wesley, Wks. (1872), V. 476. As he grows in pride, so he must grow in unadvisableness and in stubbornness also.
b. Of things.
In recent use (1891–) also unadvisability (for earlier inadvisability).
1833. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., II. 374. In proof of the unadviseableness of permitting the extension of manufacturing industry.
1841. Craik, in Pict. Hist. Eng., IX. vii. IV. 853/1. The impossibility or unadvisableness of carrying it [the Licensing Act] rigorously into execution.
1877. M. Arnold, Last Ess. on Church, 217. The unadvisableness of using the occasion of burial for passing sentence of condemnation … against the particular person dead.
