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People are imagined as the sum of their race, gender, sexuality, ableness, and other identities.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

For fast after confession a soul is, as it were, a clean paper leaf, for ableness that it hath to receive what that men will write thereupon.

From The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 by Gardner, Edmund Garratt

He looked older than Methuselah, yet strong, for his muscles stood out like knotted whip-cords; and active, for he stood on the balls of his feet with the immobility that only comes of ableness.

From Caves of Terror by Mundy, Talbot

O King of the Age," answered Alaeddin, "I left it not imperfect but of my free will, nor did I lack of ableness to complete it.

From Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp by Payne, John

Is it not more than the mere ableness of method, still more than the audacity of brush work, that often passes for style?

From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement