venerableness
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There was a splendid old pastor there; his white hair and trumpeting voice gave him venerableness, even when he spoke of things that seemed to me very childish and obvious.
From The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W.
Something of the venerableness of Independence Hall, the dignity of Girard College, and the air of financial importance that belongs to the Mint gets into the blood of a Philadelphian.
From Duffels by Edward Eggleston
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
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
Long tenure of estates and little change in the people had given Richmond the venerableness we associate with age.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
