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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The tenderness of youth and the venerableness of age were no protection.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
There was nothing artificial or upstart about their beauty, but the venerableness of dignity.
From Stubble by George Looms
Of a Gothic venerableness, it fell upon his breast like a continual iron-gray storm.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
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
Chaucer’s Lawyer is a character of great venerableness, a Judge and a real master of the jurisprudence of his age.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
