serviceableness

Example Sentences

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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

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 Jowett, John Henry

None of these heating attachments is sure to prove fully satisfactory, but any one of them is likely to add a great deal to the serviceableness of the bathroom.

From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)

As it streams out from her it is the creative, regenerating passion for humanity which transcended the reasoned good-will of the pagan philosophers and transcends the materialistic serviceableness of the modern humanitarians.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

He finds now that the form itself—over and above the practical serviceableness of the bowl—gives him pleasure.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge