serviceableness

Example Sentences

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During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.

From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Fortune, Timothy Thomas

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

One remembers that he could still rejoice in the trees, not because they were images of loneliness and meditation, but because of their serviceableness.

From The Cutting of an Agate by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

There are many tendencies toward extreme individualism which need balancing by clearer ideals of social serviceableness.

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

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