venerableness

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Chaucer’s Lawyer is a character of great venerableness, a Judge and a real master of the jurisprudence of his age.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

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 Burroughs, John

Hence the importance, the venerableness of all those mediæval hymns.

From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon

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 Hazlitt, William

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.