serviceableness
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They have no connection with life, either by penetrating, by serviceableness, deep into that of the individual; or by spreading, by cheapness, over a wide surface of the life of the nations.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
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
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
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
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
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