venerableness
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Such was her character and reputation, that the belief in her supernatural powers had only heightened the notion of her venerableness.
From The Portent & Other Stories by George MacDonald
I am afraid that the old commended itself by its venerableness, the solidity of its traditions, and the authority of its great names, while the new was still vague and formless.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Carlyle was, of course, the more prodigious personality, and had the advantage in the richness and venerableness of the Old World setting.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
By his talents, learning, and ambition, Cotton Mather had become recognized as a "Father in the Church;" and his aspect, as he stood in the pulpit of "North Boston," fulfilled the idea of venerableness.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham
The charm of novelty, the applause of the multitude, the sanction of power, the venerableness of antiquity, pique, resentment, the spirit of contradiction have a good deal to do with his preferences.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
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