serviceableness

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The case stands thus: there are two principles concerned in the tenure of the magistrate's office—theoretic amenability to the letter of the law, and practical serviceableness for his duties.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

It didn't break down, and its lightness and general serviceableness made it a big advertisement of American goods.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

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

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

Are love of father and mother on the part of children, affection and serviceableness between brothers and sisters, straightforwardness and truthfulness between business men essentially dependent upon these beliefs?

From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman