serviceableness
- a word derived from serviceable.
Example Sentences
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The hat should be plain, the hair compactly done, and the whole effect of the costume trim serviceableness and grace, rather than prettiness.
From The Etiquette of To-day by Ordway, Edith B.
He finds now that the form itself—over and above the practical serviceableness of the bowl—gives him pleasure.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge
As it streams out from her it is the creative, regenerating passion for humanity which transcended the reasoned good-will of the pagan philosophers and transcends the materialistic serviceableness of the modern humanitarians.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
In one case the product is more obviously and immediately practical, and the informing purpose tends to become obscured in the actual serviceableness of the result.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge
Are love of father and mother on the part of children, affection and serviceableness between brothers and sisters, straightforwardness and truthfulness between business men essentially dependent upon these beliefs?
From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman
