capableness
Example Sentences
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I wasn’t always a believer, originally finding the show, with its sleeves-rolled-up capableness, a little corny and overly idealized.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2016
It was on the heels of Mrs. Newbolt's candor about Eleanor's "capableness" that he swept her resistance away.
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
What chiefly struck me about Mrs Brindley was her serene air of capableness, of having a self-confidence which experience had richly justified.
From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
She's got her mother's good looks and nice manners and—and kind of genteelness, you understand, and with 'em she's got her dad's sense and capableness.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
There seemed, somehow, to be a look of content and capableness about those heads bent so busily over the stitching.
From Emma McChesney and Co. by Edna Ferber
