venerableness
Example Sentences
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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
Further still, it may be said, where will be the venerableness of your boasted science about divine natures?
From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor
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
There was nothing artificial or upstart about their beauty, but the venerableness of dignity.
From Stubble by George Looms
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.