capableness

Example Sentences

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I wasn’t always a believer, originally finding the show, with its sleeves-rolled-up capableness, a little corny and overly idealized.

From New York Times • May 23, 2016

The class of the verb is determined by something else than the mere capableness of the "nominative."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

What chiefly struck me about Mrs Brindley was her serene air of capableness, of having a self-confidence which experience had richly justified.

From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

It was on the heels of Mrs. Newbolt's candor about Eleanor's "capableness" that he swept her resistance away.

From The Vehement Flame by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

She's got her mother's good looks and nice manners and—and kind of genteelness, you understand, and with 'em she's got her dad's sense and capableness.

From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby