versability

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English

Noun

versability (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being versable.
    • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
      Now the use of the Auxiliaries is, at once to set the soul a going by herself upon the materials as they are brought to her, and by the versability of this great engine, round which they are twisted, to open new tracks of enquiry, and make every idea engender millions.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for versability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)