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

It lays down fundamental principles of brotherhood, of justice, of peaceableness, but the economic or political systems in which these shall be embodied, we must discover for ourselves in each age.

From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Coffin, Henry Sloane

Poverty of spirit, humility, meekness, mercifulness, and peaceableness are indeed the marks of Christ's teaching.

From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.

And from the peaceableness of the reply he gathered that this time the lady was not soliciting patronage but conferring it.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

He wheeled his horse and sent him into the dusk toward the herd, riding cautiously, evidently not entirely convinced of the peaceableness of Lawler's intentions.

From The Trail Horde by Seltzer, Charles Alden