serviceableness

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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