bearability

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bear·a·ble

(bâr′ə-bəl)
adj.
Capable of being endured: bearable pain; a bearable schedule.
bear′a·bil′i·ty n.
bear′a·bly adv.
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bearability

(ˌbɛərəˈbɪlɪtɪ) or

bearableness

n
the quality of being able to be bornethe quality of being bearable
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In effect, then, Isabella has undergone an education in the bearableness of shame, when endured in the service of a worthwhile purpose.(16) If we ask who brings this education about, the overall answer is of course Duke Vincentio, whose purpose in pretending to Isabella that Claudio has died is "To make her heavenly comforts of despair / When it is least expected" (4.3.109-110).
In its failure to express remorse over Claudio's supposed execution and its specification of avoidance of shame as the reason for desiring death, this speech exhibits Angelo's retrogressive stance relative to the sort of moral education Isabella has undergone in the second half of the play, into the reality of loss and the bearableness of shame.
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