deˈceivableness Now rare.
[-ness.]
† 1. The capacity of deceiving; deceitfulness, deceit; deceptiveness. Obs. (or arch. after N.T.)
| 1526 Tindale 2 Thess. ii. 10 In all deceavablenes of unrightewesnes [1611 with all deceivableness; 1881 R. V. with all deceit]. 1530 Palsgr. 213/1 Desceyvablenesse, deceuableté. a 1653 Gouge Comm. Heb. iii. 14 Sin prevails the more by the deceiveablenesse thereof. 1671 Glanvill Disc. M. Stubbe 26 The Discourse about the deceivableness of Opticks. 1826 E. Irving Babylon II. 439 They are deceived into false security by that mystery of deceivableness. 1853 I. Williams Serm. Epist. (1875) I. xvii. 193 With all deceivableness and power of seduction. |
2. Liability to be deceived, fallibility.
| 1674 Govt. Tongue viii. ¶11 His negligence and deceivableness. |