serviceableness

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Delete "serviceable": and replace "serviceableness" by "inclination to serve".

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George

To him more than to any other man it owes its organized life and its missionary serviceableness.

From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis

The work that is ready to her hand, the ordinary round of family tasks and serviceableness, repels her.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various

There are many tendencies toward extreme individualism which need balancing by clearer ideals of social serviceableness.

From The Family and it's Members by Spencer, Anna Garlin

The case stands thus: there are two principles concerned in the tenure of the magistrate's office—theoretic amenability to the letter of the law, and practical serviceableness for his duties.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various