serviceableness

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Each use of propositions has its own excellence and serviceableness, and each has its own imperfection.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

The formulation of definitions and laws in exclusively mechanical terms is not due to the exhaustive or even preëminent reality of these properties, but to their peculiar serviceableness in a verifiable description of events.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

As it streams out from her it is the creative, regenerating passion for humanity which transcended the reasoned good-will of the pagan philosophers and transcends the materialistic serviceableness of the modern humanitarians.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

In one case the product is more obviously and immediately practical, and the informing purpose tends to become obscured in the actual serviceableness of the result.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge

But it is by no means yet certain that they have lost serviceableness as, at least, outworks of the stronghold.

From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris