ready-handedness

Noun

ready-handedness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being ready-handed; capability and preparedness.
   • Touching alike in contrast and in resemblance is the life-story of Jame Hannington, the incorrigible, fun-loving Oxford student; the curate winning men's hearts by his genial sympathy and ready-handedness in time of need, yet dimly conscious of his unfitness for the cure of souls, while the inward...1887, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine: Being a Continuation of the Arminian or Methodist Magazine First Published by John Wesley
   • He had all the Bushman's ready-handedness, and there was just sufficient aloofness in his frank cordiality to make her feel that he would never presume upon any familiarity which circumstances might enforce.1897, Mrs. Campbell Praed, Mrs. Tregaskiss: A Novel of Anglo-Australian Life, page 18