venerableness

Example Sentences

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

From Stubble by Looms, George

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

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

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

Of a Gothic venerableness, it fell upon his breast like a continual iron-gray storm.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman