peaceableness

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Because of its mountain beauty and the diversity, industry and peaceableness of its 8,500,000 inhabitants, Ceylon has been called the Switzerland of the East.

From Time Magazine Archive

It lays down fundamental principles of brotherhood, of justice, of peaceableness, but the economic or political systems in which these shall be embodied, we must discover for ourselves in each age.

From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Coffin, Henry Sloane

Lincoln's reply shows that his habitual peaceableness involved no lack of dignity; he said.

From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by Nicolay, John George

A truce had been agreed on, and while we were acting with perfect good faith and peaceableness, your people most unjustifiably attempted to destroy us.

From Hurricane Hurry by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Their regard for our personal welfare and safety too much absorbs the zeal they should possess for the maintenance of the principle of the peaceableness of our Master's kingdom.

From The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones by Jones, Rufus Matthew