venerableness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Those who belong to them have all the upstart pride and pettifogging spirit of their present character ingrafted on the venerableness and superstitious sanctity of ancient institutions.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
The ages of these veterans ranged from fifty-nine up to the patriarchal venerableness of nearly ninety.
From Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hence the importance, the venerableness of all those mediæval hymns.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
There was a splendid old pastor there; his white hair and trumpeting voice gave him venerableness, even when he spoke of things that seemed to me very childish and obvious.
From The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W.
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 Henry Cabot Lodge
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word