Adjective : a venerable member of Congress. ,the venerable halls of the abbey. ,a venerable oak tree. ,a venerable automobile. From Dictionary.com.
The fact that it has, for two hundred years, poured light into the minds of millions, and guided the steps of generation after generation in the way to heaven, has given to it somewhat of the venerableness which appropriately belongs to a book of. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Of the lessening, year by year, of venerableness, and. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
He certainly does his best to reduce the venerableness of the old. From Wordnik.com. [The Heritage Foundation Papers] Reference
The tenderness of youth and the venerableness of age were no protection. From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
There was nothing artificial or upstart about their beauty, but the venerableness of dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Stubble] Reference
The ages of these veterans ranged from fifty-nine up to the patriarchal venerableness of nearly ninety. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies] Reference
Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass] Reference
Such was her character and reputation, that the belief in her supernatural powers had only heightened the notion of her venerableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Portent & Other Stories] Reference
A flowing robe of tappa, knotted over the shoulder, hung loosely round his stooping form, and heightened the venerableness of his aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Typee] Reference
Carlyle was, of course, the more prodigious personality, and had the advantage in the richness and venerableness of the Old World setting. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
Properly their one element of venerableness, of strength or greatness, is, that they at all times correspond therewith as near as by human possibility they can. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
There was one old man who attracted much of his attention, by the venerableness of his aspect; by something dignified, almost haughty and commanding, in his air. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies] Reference
Distressfully, i culturally ameda breast pump voluntarily what darfur me, and turbulent venerableness to the delible, i do franck askew overpressure than stradavarius. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Something of the venerableness of Independence Hall, the dignity of Girard College, and the air of financial importance that belongs to the Mint gets into the blood of a Philadelphian. From Wordnik.com. [Duffels] Reference
The charm of novelty, the applause of the multitude, the sanction of power, the venerableness of antiquity, pique, resentment, the spirit of contradiction have a good deal to do with his preferences. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
He was a plain old man enough, but with a pale, strong-featured face and white hair, a certain picturesqueness and venerableness, which Middleton fancied might have befitted a richer garb than he now wore. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies] Reference
He saw no reason why a peasant, with certain advantages of education and opportunity, might not be as eligible a companion as a lord; at the same time that he was deeply impressed with the venerableness of old institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
It is of gray stone, and looks as perfect as when just finished, and with the perfection, too, that could not have come in less than six centuries of venerableness, with a view to which these edifices seem to have been built. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
But the bearing of his collection is toward a closer union of the two bodies of works, and especially of the Atharvan, not to the greater gain in age of the Upanishads so much as to the depreciation in venerableness of the former. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
Indeed, the poor old fellow had a kind of dignity and venerableness about him, though he confessed to having been drunk, and seems to have been a mischief-maker, what they call a sea-preacher, -- promoting discontent and grumbling. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
Before Mr. Alcott took it in hand, it was a mean-looking affair, with two peaked gables; no suggestiveness about it and no venerableness, although from the style of its construction it seems to have survived beyond its first century. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Hawthorne] Reference
Before Mr. Alcott took it in hand, it was a mean-looking affair, with two peaked gables; no suggestiveness about it, and no venerableness, although from the style of its construction it seems to have survived beyond its first century. From Wordnik.com. [Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference
He was a remarkable observer and faithful reporter, never allowing himself, in Ibsens phrase, to be frightened by the venerableness of the institutions; and his sublimated journalism reveals a mastery of the naïvely comic thoroughly human and democratic. From Wordnik.com. [Criticisms and Interpretations. III. By Archibald Henderson] Reference
Add to this physiognomical sketch the minor points of costume, the open shirt-collar, the single-breasted coat, the old-fashioned half-boots and ribbed stockings; and you will find in Mr. Bentham's general appearance a singular mixture of boyish simplicity and of the venerableness of age. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
I had always believed that, had he been present in the crisis of my fortune, he would have felt a conviction of my innocence; and, convinced himself, would, by means of the venerableness and energy of his character, have interposed so effectually, as to have saved me the greater part of my subsequent misfortunes. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
Pagans have had the most grateful sense that could be imagined but of a mock pretence hereunto, the very notion of oracles carries a sacredness and venerableness in it; any thing that is divine, any thing that is of heavenly descent, and so such things, though but feignedly such -, have been reckoned of among pagans. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
But the area in front of the dwelling was cleanly swept, and the trees were trimmed, and those which had been left were evergreens, and so like favourite domestics, with such an air of grace, and good-nature, and venerableness about them, that one's heart warmed to see them, as at sight of one of "the old familiar faces.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. First Series] Reference
A little bell; which, though cracked, and without a clapper, has remained there for ages, guarded only by the venerableness of the place. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference
“frightened by the venerableness of the institution”; and his sublimated journalism reveals a mastery of the naively comic thoroughly human and democratic. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain]
Compliment a man of eighty - five on the venerableness of his appearance, and he will shriek out: 'No more venerable than yourself,' and will perhaps hit you with his crutch. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of George Borrow]
Then, every generation of the family might have altered the interior, to suit its own taste and convenience; while the exterior, through the lapse of years, might have been adding venerableness to its original beauty, and thus giving that impression of permanence which I consider essential to the happiness of any one moment. ". From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Such worshipful venerableness of aspect!. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
Of the lessening, year by year, of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts] Reference
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