Definition of "docibleness"

docibleness

noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) Teachableness; docility.
  Quotations
  The docibleness of dogs in general.
  1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […]; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969,
  [describing a horse] " […] his docibleness and desire of glory and praise, and consequently his notable atchievements in War […] "
  1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 64

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