amissibility

English

Etymology

Compare French amissibilité. See amit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌmɪsɪˈbɪlɪti/

Noun

amissibility (uncountable)

1. The quality of being amissible; likelihood of being lost.
   • 1839, Henry Hallam, “History of Moral and Political Philosophy, and of Jurisprudence from 1600 to 1650”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, volume III, London: John Murray, , →OCLC, paragraph 41, page 351:

     In the sixteenth century, we have seen that notions of popular rights, and of the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct, were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe, according to the necessity in which they stood for such weapons against their adversaries.

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References

• “amissibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.