dependableness

Example Sentences

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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

These qualities must be sought for in performers of roles—obedience, dependableness, mobility, patience, endurance.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence

It was like a breaking instinct of dependableness; and then he called up Dr. Bennington.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick

Oh, she is rigid New England," Mrs. Tully insisted, "the solidest of creatures as to honor and rectitude, dependableness and faithfulness.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack

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