serviceableness
Example Sentences
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I know no cornice more beautiful in its extreme simplicity and serviceableness.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
The formulation of definitions and laws in exclusively mechanical terms is not due to the exhaustive or even preëminent reality of these properties, but to their peculiar serviceableness in a verifiable description of events.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
In one case the product is more obviously and immediately practical, and the informing purpose tends to become obscured in the actual serviceableness of the result.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
There are many tendencies toward extreme individualism which need balancing by clearer ideals of social serviceableness.
From The Family and it's Members by Anna Garlin Spencer
The hat should be plain, the hair compactly done, and the whole effect of the costume trim serviceableness and grace, rather than prettiness.
From The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. Ordway
