venerableness
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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
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
Hence the importance, the venerableness of all those mediæval hymns.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
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
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
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