Definition of Idoneity

1. the state of being idoneous [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Idoneity

idolize
idolized
idolizer
idolizers
idolizes
idolizing
idolizingly
idoloclast
idoloclasts
idolographical
idolomancy
idolous
idols
idolum
idoneities
idoneity (current term)
idoneous
idorgan
idose
idoses
idoxuridine
idrialine
idrialines
idrialite
idrialites
idrosis
ids
iduronate
iduronate sulfatase
iduronic acid

Literary usage of Idoneity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Phillimore (1842)
"... and the institution of clerks to regular benefices; y^™^' as to which, and the degree of idoneity, (if I may so call it,) ..."

2. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1894)
"... and the institution of clerks to regular benefices ; as to which, and the degree of idoneity, (if I may so call it,) which may be required by the Bishop ..."

3. The Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England by Robert Phillimore (1873)
"... and the institution of clerks to regular benefices ; as to which, and the degree of idoneity, (if I may so call it,) which may be required by the bishop ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1873)
"... criterion of the moral idoneity of the clerk, but this is not the case actually raised by the plea; and it may be matter of regret that from the defects ..."

5. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Great Britain Magistrates' cases, Edward William Cox (1870)
"... it is possible that it might have been shown that this particular kind of testimonial was by law an essential criterion of the moral idoneity of the ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"These electors are by the statutes to judge of the idoneity; and they have all sworn, they did exercise their judgment: and according to their conscientious ..."

7. Criminology by Raffaele Garofalo (1914)
"In my judgment, therefore, the old criterion of proportionality must give way to that of idoneity. ..."

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