serviceableness

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This general defect in its serviceableness has been heretofore felt by those who appealed to it.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.

From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Fortune, Timothy Thomas

To him more than to any other man it owes its organized life and its missionary serviceableness.

From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis

If they answer that use, the country will rejoice in keeping them; if not, that will become of them which must of all things found to have lost their serviceableness.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

That the useful is not always perceived as beautiful is due to the fact that the design which has shaped the work must be regarded apart from the material serviceableness of the object itself.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge