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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

éligibilité

The quality of being eligible; eligibleness;

as, the

eligibility

of a candidate; the

eligibility

of an offer of marriage.

Noun.

[from eligible] Worthiness or fitness to be chosen; the state or quality of a thing which renders it preferable to another, or desirable.

The state of being capable of being chosen to an office.