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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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... and chose to receive them next day at the Arsenal. I communicated his commands, and at the hour named we met, the King attended by Roquelaure and myself. But if I had flattered myself that the King's presence would secure a degree of moderation and reasonableness I was soon undeceived; for though M. de St. Mesmin had only his trembling head and his tears to urge, Clan and his son fell upon Saintonge with so much violence—to which he responded by a fierce and resentful sullenness ...

— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman

... with the supplies. He may use his "authority" as a vague power far on into their adult life, if he is a forcible character. But it is at its best a shorn splendour he retains. He has ceased to be an autocrat and become a constitutional monarch; the State, sustained by the growing reasonableness of the world, intervenes more and more between him and the wife and children who were once powerless in ...

— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells

... between Lady Waterham and the unknown woman whose property it had been. Jim was not shaken in his own private conviction (strengthened as it had been by his dream), but he was too hard-headed not to admit the reasonableness of Mr. Hendrick's arguments; and the more he heard of the tales that had been circulated, the more deeply he regretted his pride and misplaced confidence. He finally made no objection to Hendrick's proposal ...

— A Child of the Glens - or, Elsie's Fortune • Edward Newenham Hoare

... to me this morning, when you called me to you, about the wickedness of being too proud to ask Alma's pardon, and reasoned with me as you did a little while ago, about it all, I—I'd have obeyed you at once; you know you do almost always show me the reasonableness of your commands before, or when, you lay ...

— Elsie's Vacation and After Events • Martha Finley

... with the bodily agitation of the dreamer; but they are the feelings of the loftiest of men's sons—and when the troubled spirit has escaped from their burden, or found strength to support it, the conviction of their reasonableness and of their awful reality remains; nor can it be removed from the minds of the wise and virtuous, without the obliteration from the tablets of memory of all the moral judgments which ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

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