资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Towardliness \To"ward*li*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being towardly; docility;
   tractableness.

         The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her
         brethren to envy.                        --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.