venerableness
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History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Of a Gothic venerableness, it fell upon his breast like a continual iron-gray storm.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
Those who belong to them have all the upstart pride and pettifogging spirit of their present character ingrafted on the venerableness and superstitious sanctity of ancient institutions.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
Something of the venerableness of Independence Hall, the dignity of Girard College, and the air of financial importance that belongs to the Mint gets into the blood of a Philadelphian.
From Duffels by Edward Eggleston
Long tenure of estates and little change in the people had given Richmond the venerableness we associate with age.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
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