Meaning of preferrableness | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of preferableness.

alt-of, alternative, uncountable

Examples

“And for this Reason⟳ I have⟳ ſet down among the Inſtances belonging to particular Qualities ſome ſuch Experiments and Obſervations, as we are now ſpeaking of, ſince, although they be not direct⟳ proofs of the preferrableneſs of our Doctrine, yet they may ſerve for Confirmation of it;”

“AN ARGUMENT / For the Preferrableneſs of a Company to Single Purchaſers, in Diſpoſing of the Iriſh Forfeitures, with regard to Publick Benefit.[…]The very common Notion, which all Men have⟳, of the Preferrableneſs of Freedom to Reſtraint in Point⟳ of Dignity doth make⟳ this certain.”

“The drift of all his Reaſonings (if the Logicians will forgive⟳ me for calling Abſurdities ſo) is to ſhew the Preferrableneſs of a Government, by one or a few Perſons, to a Government by many;”

“Now, this Life is the Man’s firſt and moſt weighty Concern⟳ to ſeek the ſecuring and advancing of; as will be evident from the Preferrableneſs of it before the other, Matth. 16. 26.”

“There is no room to doubt⟳ of the goodneſs of this tranſlation, and its preferrableneſs to that of our margin;”

“There is not the leaſt doubt⟳ of the preferrableneſs of true theology to every atheiſtic ſcheme, antient or modern, as Epicurus himſelf owns (b);”

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