venerableness

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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 Burroughs, John

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 Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

Properly their one element of venerableness, of strength of greatness, is, that they at all times correspond therewith as near as by human possibility they can.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot

I am afraid that the old commended itself by its venerableness, the solidity of its traditions, and the authority of its great names, while the new was still vague and formless.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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

From Sketches and Studies by Hawthorne, Nathaniel