serviceableness
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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
Are love of father and mother on the part of children, affection and serviceableness between brothers and sisters, straight-forwardness and truthfulness between business men, essentially dependent upon these beliefs?
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
To him more than to any other man it owes its organized life and its missionary serviceableness.
From Unitarianism in America by George Willis Cooke
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
Are love of father and mother on the part of children, affection and serviceableness between brothers and sisters, straightforwardness and truthfulness between business men essentially dependent upon these beliefs?
From A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen
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