The Collaborative International Dictionary
Towardliness \To"ward*li*ness\, n. The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness.
The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her
brethren to envy.
--Sir W.
Raleigh.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being towardly.
Usage examples of "towardliness".
For since it is not continency alone that Thou hast enjoined upon us, that is, from what things to hold back our love, but righteousness also, that is, upon what to bestow it, and hast wished us to love not Thee only, but also our neighbour, 884 -often, when gratified by intelligent praise, I appear to myself to be gratified by the proficiency or towardliness of my neighbour, and again to be sorry for evil in him when I hear him dispraise either that which he understands not, or is good.