serviceableness

Example Sentences

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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)

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, straight-forwardness and truthfulness between business men, essentially dependent upon these beliefs?

From The Necessity of Atheism by Brooks, David Marshall

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

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

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