"ready-handedness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From ready-handed + -ness.",
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          "ref": "1887, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine: Being a Continuation of the Arminian or Methodist Magazine First Published by John Wesley:",
          "text": "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 voice whispered ever more loudly: 'Mine own vineyard have I not kept.'",
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          "ref": "1897, Mrs. Campbell Praed, Mrs. Tregaskiss: A Novel of Anglo-Australian Life, page 18:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2003, Sandra Peart, W.S. Jevons: Critical Responses - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 401:",
          "text": "There are a dozen kinds of skilled labour greatly more difficult, demanding, indeed, somewhat less physical exertion but far more of the superior qualities of head and ready-handedness.",
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        "The quality of being ready-handed; capability and preparedness."
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