UTIL'ITY, noun [Latin utilas, from utor, to use.]
Usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as the utility of manures upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.