peaceableness

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Because of its mountain beauty and the diversity, industry and peaceableness of its 8,500,000 inhabitants, Ceylon has been called the Switzerland of the East.

From Time Magazine Archive

The colonel sat there in a mild peaceableness, quite another man under the tan of his honest intimacy with the sun.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

We cannot expect, therefore, that our professions of peaceableness should be taken very seriously by outsiders.

From The European Anarchy by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

"Whence does the Mantis derive its excessive hunger, its pugnacity, its cannibalism, and the Empusa its sobriety, its peaceableness, when their almost identical organization would seem to indicate an identity of needs, instincts, and habits?"

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard

Possibly this assertion may seem strange to one likewise who has remarked the ordinary peaceableness of my disposition.

From Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by MacDonald, George