Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EL-I-GI-BIL'I-TY
EL-I-GI-BIL'I-TY, n. [from eligible.]
- Worthiness or fitness to be chosen; the state or quality of a thing which renders it preferable to another, or desirable.
- The state of being capable of being chosen to an office. United States.
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