retrievableness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From retrievable + -ness.
Noun
[edit]retrievableness (uncountable)
- (rare) retrievability
- 1839, Richard Treffry, Letters on the atonement, page 185:
- The notion of inherent retrievableness cannot consist with the condition of a totally fallen creature. And yet it must be by some such influence that evil is repressed, and goodness encouraged.