serviceableness
Example Sentences
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If they answer that use, the country will rejoice in keeping them; if not, that will become of them which must of all things found to have lost their serviceableness.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
But the serviceableness of the stipulation is most vividly illustrated by referring to the actual examples in the pages of the Latin comic dramatists.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
There are many tendencies toward extreme individualism which need balancing by clearer ideals of social serviceableness.
From The Family and it's Members by Anna Garlin Spencer
Are love of father and mother on the part of children, affection and serviceableness between brothers and sisters, straight-forwardness and truthfulness between business men, essentially dependent upon these beliefs?
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
Nor was there any doubt that the work which the youth found interesting and attractive at the time was the work in which he might find a maximum of ultimate success, satisfaction, and serviceableness.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth
