venerableness

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Carlyle was, of course, the more prodigious personality, and had the advantage in the richness and venerableness of the Old World setting.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

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 Winter, William West

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.

Hence the importance, the venerableness of all those mediæval hymns.

From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon

The ages of these veterans ranged from fifty-nine up to the patriarchal venerableness of nearly ninety.

From Sketches and Studies by Hawthorne, Nathaniel