dependableness

Example Sentences

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Your greatest success will be achieved in some field of service where dependableness is a primary essential.

From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.

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

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

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