venerableness
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This here venerableness, he declares a whole lot, is solely and absolutely due to the ondisputable fact that he ain’t never bathed in forty-two years.
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
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 Charles Wentworth Upham
The ages of these veterans ranged from fifty-nine up to the patriarchal venerableness of nearly ninety.
From Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
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