Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-SIST-I-BIL'I-TY, or RE-SIST'I-BLE-NESS
RE-SIST-I-BIL'I-TY, or RE-SIST'I-BLE-NESS, n.
- The quality of resisting. The name body, being the complex idea of extension and responsibility together in the same subject. – Locke.
- Quality of being resistible; as, the resistibility of grace. – Hammond.
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