serviceableness

Example Sentences

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So it is, but it is also a process by which individuals are fitted for serviceableness to the group life.

From The Family and it's Members by Spencer, Anna Garlin

It is shabby to offer Him the mere hull of the boat when the storms of passion have carried its serviceableness away.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

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

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 Newman, John Henry Cardinal

The work that is ready to her hand, the ordinary round of family tasks and serviceableness, repels her.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various