serviceableness

Example Sentences

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That uncouth, bullet-headed officer had not spent his whole life on the high seas, belaboring all classes of men into serviceableness, without being able to judge the genus homo pretty shrewdly.

From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.

That the useful is not always perceived as beautiful is due to the fact that the design which has shaped the work must be regarded apart from the material serviceableness of the object itself.

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

Delete "serviceable": and replace "serviceableness" by "inclination to serve".

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George

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

Wisdom is the theoretic knowledge of things as they are, irrespective of their serviceableness to our practical interests.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt