serviceableness

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Wisdom is the theoretic knowledge of things as they are, irrespective of their serviceableness to our practical interests.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

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 Stribling, T. S.

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 Fortune, Timothy Thomas

This was the Greek artists' idea of the serviceableness of nature, as revealed both by their practice and by such traditions as that concerning Zeuxis and his five beautiful models for the figure of Venus.

From Albert Durer by Moore, T. Sturge

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