7. Apt'ness, fitness, suitableness.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
What a contrast to the suitableness of the material the hummingbird uses-the down of some plant, which seems to have a poetic fitness!
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs
In other words, he conceives there is a suitableness betwixt the operation of man's conscience and that effectual remedy for its uneasiness to which the original institution of animal sacrifices pointed.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr