venerable
adjective
commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character.
venerableness
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a word derived from
venerable.
Example Sentences
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Further still, it may be said, where will be the venerableness of your boasted science about divine natures?
From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor
The tenderness of youth and the venerableness of age were no protection.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
This here venerableness, he declares a whole lot, is solely and absolutely due to the ondisputable fact that he ain’t never bathed in forty-two years.
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
There was nothing artificial or upstart about their beauty, but the venerableness of dignity.
From Stubble by George Looms
