serviceableness

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It didn't break down, and its lightness and general serviceableness made it a big advertisement of American goods.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

They have no connection with life, either by penetrating, by serviceableness, deep into that of the individual; or by spreading, by cheapness, over a wide surface of the life of the nations.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon

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

I know no cornice more beautiful in its extreme simplicity and serviceableness.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

Wisdom is the theoretic knowledge of things as they are, irrespective of their serviceableness to our practical interests.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt