Crossword clues for satisfactoriness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Satisfactory \Sat`is*fac"to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. satisfactoire.]
Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.
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Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.
A most wise and sufficient means of redemption and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorious death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ.
--Bp. Sanderson. [1913 Webster] -- Sat`is*fac"to*ri*ly, adv. -- Sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being satisfactory.
WordNet
n. the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement [ant: unsatisfactoriness]
Usage examples of "satisfactoriness".
My masters could now command me, the barbarian girl, with relative satisfactoriness, in their own tongue, and I, to some extent, the lovely, barbarian slave from Earth, could respond to them in the tongue of my masters, theirs.