serviceableness
Example Sentences
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The only real test of health is the serviceableness to the needs of life.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
His serviceableness to his friends was unwearied, and his generous liberality toward all whom he could help either with his interest, his trouble, or his purse was unfailing.
From Records of a Girlhood by Fanny Kemble
Wisdom is the theoretic knowledge of things as they are, irrespective of their serviceableness to our practical interests.
From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde
That uncouth, bullet-headed officer had not spent his whole life on the high seas, belaboring all classes of men into serviceableness, without being able to judge the genus homo pretty shrewdly.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
That the useful is not always perceived as beautiful is due to the fact that the design which has shaped the work must be regarded apart from the material serviceableness of the object itself.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
