serviceableness
Example Sentences
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He finds now that the form itself—over and above the practical serviceableness of the bowl—gives him pleasure.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
This general defect in its serviceableness has been heretofore felt by those who appealed to it.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
It didn't break down, and its lightness and general serviceableness made it a big advertisement of American goods.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
To him more than to any other man it owes its organized life and its missionary serviceableness.
From Unitarianism in America by George Willis Cooke
Delete "serviceable": and replace "serviceableness" by "inclination to serve".
From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox