venerableness
Example Sentences
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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
The charm of novelty, the applause of the multitude, the sanction of power, the venerableness of antiquity, pique, resentment, the spirit of contradiction have a good deal to do with his preferences.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
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
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
The tenderness of youth and the venerableness of age were no protection.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
