serviceableness

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It didn't break down, and its lightness and general serviceableness made it a big advertisement of American goods.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

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

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

But the serviceableness of the stipulation is most vividly illustrated by referring to the actual examples in the pages of the Latin comic dramatists.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

They serve to teach him many most valuable lessons, and to round out his character into a far more symmetrical beauty and serviceableness.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)