amissibility

English

Etymology

Compare French amissibilité. See amit.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˌmɪsɪˈbɪlɪti/

Noun

amissibility (uncountable)

The quality of being amissible; the possibility 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 1010569041, 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.

Translations

quality of being amissible

Portuguese: amissibilidade f

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 amissibility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)