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Reasonableness

noun

The state of having good sense and sound judgment. Synonyms: rationality, reason. "He had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"

Goodness of reason and judgment.

The property of being moderate in price or expenditures. Synonyms: moderateness, modestness. "The modestness of the living standards here becomes obvious immediately"

Moderation in expectations.

The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person. Synonyms: tenability, tenableness.

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"Reasonableness" Quotes from Famous Books

... of uncivilised Celts, and to marauding Danes and Vikings. He had driven out the serpent-worshippers, and consecrated the Black Stone of Tara to the worship of the True God; he had convinced the High King of the truth and reasonableness of the doctrine of the Trinity by the illustration of the shamrock leaf, and had overthrown the great idols and purified the land. Therefore the fair shores and fertile vales of Erin, the clustered islets, ...

— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt

... after reading this, to wonder whether Henry More, the retired, and so far untried, student of Cambridge, would have been able thus to meet the alternations of suffering which he imagines? It is one thing to see reasonableness, another to be reasonable when objects have become circumstances. Would he, then, by spiritual might, have risen indeed above bodily torture? It is possible for a man to arrive at this perfection; it ...

— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald

... evident reasonableness of the father's position, in the eyes of this good and gentle woman, made it impossible for her to speak without dissent to such an atrocity as Lord Hurdly's attitude seemed to her. So she moved away, and the woman took the hint and said ...

— A Manifest Destiny • Julia Magruder

... him suddenly feeling very sad and very much alone. It was as if he had buried the friend of half a century. Yet even to bring Janoah back he could not retract the words he had uttered or exchange the light he followed for Janoah's sinister beckonings. In spite of a certain reasonableness in the pessimist's logic; in spite of circumstances he was incapable of explaining; in spite, even, of Cynthia Galbraith, a latent belief in Robert Morton's integrity crystallized into certainty, and he rose to his feet freed of the doubts that ...

— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett

... Falconer's part in the attack the next night, and upon the entire reasonableness of his abandonment of the trail. He put it down to his own mulishness that he had hung on and had learned through the little boy of her ...

— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley

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