towardliness

[Eng. towardly; -ne .] The quality or state of being towardly; docility; readine to learn or do; aptne . "There lacked no towardline , nor good disposition in Cato's son, to frame himself vertuous: for he was of so good a nature, that he shewed himself willing to follow whatsoever his father had taught him." -North : Plutarch , p. 298.