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

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

After all he was just Billy—the same delightful directness, the same steady eyes, clear to the depths, the same unfailing dependableness, the same infinite understanding.

From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Chapman, Ethel M.

The more I depended on them the greater was their dependableness, and the little girls grew more tender, the boys more chivalrous.

From The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

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