serviceableness

Example Sentences

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The only real test of health is the serviceableness to the needs of life.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

They serve to teach him many most valuable lessons, and to round out his character into a far more symmetrical beauty and serviceableness.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)

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

The formulation of definitions and laws in exclusively mechanical terms is not due to the exhaustive or even preëminent reality of these properties, but to their peculiar serviceableness in a verifiable description of events.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

I know no cornice more beautiful in its extreme simplicity and serviceableness.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John