serviceableness
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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
It is shabby to offer Him the mere hull of the boat when the storms of passion have carried its serviceableness away.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
One remembers that he could still rejoice in the trees, not because they were images of loneliness and meditation, but because of their serviceableness.
From The Cutting of an Agate by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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
During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.
From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Timothy Thomas Fortune
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