dependableness

Example Sentences

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This is the time when those who teach her may help her to see the value of promptness, absolute accuracy, and dependableness.

From The Girl in Her Teens by Slattery, Margaret

A girl who because of her dependableness will be of great value in home, school and community is being made by the sane, wise sympathy of mother and teacher.

From The Girl and Her Religion by Slattery, Margaret

Certainly, if there were not two or three narratives which have an air of veracity and dependableness, bearing out the belief to some slight extent, I should not have noticed it here.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

A mighty comfortable soul she was, giving one the nice smooth mother-feeling a man likes in a woman, and yet giving also the clear intelligence and dependableness I used to assume to be masculine qualities.

From Herland by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Sharing in the responsibility of the home begets self-reliance and dependableness in later life.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch