venerableness
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Something of the venerableness of Independence Hall, the dignity of Girard College, and the air of financial importance that belongs to the Mint gets into the blood of a Philadelphian.
From Duffels by Edward Eggleston
The tenderness of youth and the venerableness of age were no protection.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
I am afraid that the old commended itself by its venerableness, the solidity of its traditions, and the authority of its great names, while the new was still vague and formless.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
The charm of novelty, the applause of the multitude, the sanction of power, the venerableness of antiquity, pique, resentment, the spirit of contradiction have a good deal to do with his preferences.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
Of a Gothic venerableness, it fell upon his breast like a continual iron-gray storm.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
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