venerableness
Example Sentences
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The ages of these veterans ranged from fifty-nine up to the patriarchal venerableness of nearly ninety.
From Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
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
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
I am afraid that the old commended itself by its venerableness, the solidity of its traditions, and the authority of its great names, while the new was still vague and formless.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
