noun.
The act of qualifying, or the state of being qualified, by change or modification; specifically, adaptation; fitness.
noun.
A quality adapting a person or thing to particular circumstances, uses, or ends.
noun.
That which qualifies a person for or renders him admissible to or acceptable for a place, an office, or an employment: any natural or acquired quality, property, or possession which secures a right to exercise any function, privilege, etc.; specifically, legal power or ability: as, the qualifications of an elector.
noun.
In logic, the attaching of quality, or the distinction of affirmative and negative, to a term.
noun.
A qualifying—that is, partially negativing or extenuating—circumstance; modification; restriction; limitation; allowance; abatement: as, to assert something without any qualification.
noun.
Appeasement; pacification.