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
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
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
This general defect in its serviceableness has been heretofore felt by those who appealed to it.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
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
