venerableness
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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
Hence the importance, the venerableness of all those mediæval hymns.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
Further still, it may be said, where will be the venerableness of your boasted science about divine natures?
From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor
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
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
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