amiability, am ability

Fr. amabilité; Ital. amabilità, from Lat. amabilitas.] The quality of meriting love; amiablene , loveline . It is applied not so much to attractivene of physical aspect, as to humility, good temper, and other moral qualities fitted to excite love. "So many arguments of amiability and endearment."-Jeremy Taylor: Of Not Judging, p. 8. a-mi-a-ble, a. [In Fr. aimable; Sp. amigable, amable: Ital. amabile. From Lat. amabilis = lovely; amo = to love.] 1. Po e ed of qualities fitted to evoke love, or a feeling nearly akin to it. (a) Of persons: a man, not indeed faultle , but distinguished both by his abilities and by his amiable qualities."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xiv. IMG:content-0458.png:[graphic] 186 (b) Of things : "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!"-Ps. lxxxiv. 1. 2. Expre ing love. "Lay amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife: use your art of wooing."-Shakesp.: Merry Wives, 11. 2.