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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Hence the importance, the venerableness of all those mediæval hymns.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
The tenderness of youth and the venerableness of age were no protection.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
There was a splendid old pastor there; his white hair and trumpeting voice gave him venerableness, even when he spoke of things that seemed to me very childish and obvious.
From The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W.
Properly their one element of venerableness, of strength of greatness, is, that they at all times correspond therewith as near as by human possibility they can.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Henry Cabot Lodge
Carlyle was, of course, the more prodigious personality, and had the advantage in the richness and venerableness of the Old World setting.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
