venerableness

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Further still, it may be said, where will be the venerableness of your boasted science about divine natures?

From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

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 Upham, Charles Wentworth

There was nothing artificial or upstart about their beauty, but the venerableness of dignity.

From Stubble by Looms, George

The ages of these veterans ranged from fifty-nine up to the patriarchal venerableness of nearly ninety.

From Sketches and Studies by Hawthorne, Nathaniel