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I wasn’t always a believer, originally finding the show, with its sleeves-rolled-up capableness, a little corny and overly idealized.

From New York Times • May 23, 2016

In the harsh vanity of her conscious capableness and young strength she thought thus, half forgetting her own follies, and half excusing them on the ground of inexperience.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

There seemed, somehow, to be a look of content and capableness about those heads bent so busily over the stitching.

From Emma McChesney and Co. by Ferber, Edna

What chiefly struck me about Mrs Brindley was her serene air of capableness, of having a self-confidence which experience had richly justified.

From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

The class of the verb is determined by something else than the mere capableness of the "nominative."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold