venerableness

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The charm of novelty, the applause of the multitude, the sanction of power, the venerableness of antiquity, pique, resentment, the spirit of contradiction have a good deal to do with his preferences.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

There was nothing artificial or upstart about their beauty, but the venerableness of dignity.

From Stubble by Looms, George

Chaucer’s Lawyer is a character of great venerableness, a Judge and a real master of the jurisprudence of his age.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

There was a splendid old pastor there; his white hair and trumpeting voice gave him venerableness, even when he spoke of things that seemed to me very childish and obvious.

From The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W.

By his talents, learning, and ambition, Cotton Mather had become recognized as a "Father in the Church;" and his aspect, as he stood in the pulpit of "North Boston," fulfilled the idea of venerableness.

From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth