venerableness
Example Sentences
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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
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
The tenderness of youth and the venerableness of age were no protection.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
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
This here venerableness, he declares a whole lot, is solely and absolutely due to the ondisputable fact that he ain’t never bathed in forty-two years.
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
