reliableness

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There can be no reliableness of character without repose.

From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Titcomb, Timothy

It is better to give the old gentleman a little time to establish his reliableness; for in truth he is yet very young—a mere child of eight or ten years.

From Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Their original unbelief is a strong argument for the reliableness of their final faith.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

Surely that strange inversion of the apparent importance of the two things speaks for the historical reliableness of the narrative.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

But the number of steps in an argument does not subtract from its reliableness, if no new premises, of an uncertain character, are taken up by the way.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart