dependableness

Example Sentences

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Certainly, if there were not two or three narratives which have an air of veracity and dependableness, bearing out the belief to some slight extent, I should not have noticed it here.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

If any quality is most desirable, it is that of dependableness.

From Manners and Conduct in School and Out by Anonymous

They told of dependableness and plenty of undeveloped strength.

From The Shepherd of the North by Maher, Richard Aumerle

Sharing in the responsibility of the home begets self-reliance and dependableness in later life.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch

A mighty comfortable soul she was, giving one the nice smooth mother-feeling a man likes in a woman, and yet giving also the clear intelligence and dependableness I used to assume to be masculine qualities.

From Herland by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins