peaceable
adjective
inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable disposition.
peaceableness
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a word derived from
peaceable.
Example Sentences
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Because of its mountain beauty and the diversity, industry and peaceableness of its 8,500,000 inhabitants, Ceylon has been called the Switzerland of the East.
From Time Magazine Archive
These traits are truthfulness, peaceableness, good-will, and a non-emulative, non-invidious interest in men and things.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
It lays down fundamental principles of brotherhood, of justice, of peaceableness, but the economic or political systems in which these shall be embodied, we must discover for ourselves in each age.
From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin
The colonel sat there in a mild peaceableness, quite another man under the tan of his honest intimacy with the sun.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
Yet it is astonishing how soon, after the first rush was over, the camp would settle down into a state of comparative order and peaceableness.
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles
