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

Yet it is astonishing how soon, after the first rush was over, the camp would settle down into a state of comparative order and peaceableness.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel

This cannot be taken in truth, judgment, and righteousness, because of the fallacy and ambiguity of the terms: for there are diverse sorts of peace and peaceableness; some kind is duty, some never.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

"Whence does the Mantis derive its excessive hunger, its pugnacity, its cannibalism, and the Empusa its sobriety, its peaceableness, when their almost identical organization would seem to indicate an identity of needs, instincts, and habits?"

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard

The colonel sat there in a mild peaceableness, quite another man under the tan of his honest intimacy with the sun.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice