Adjective : a profitable deal. From Dictionary.com.
The reason of this 'profitableness' is the fact that the labor requires so little mental effort. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
So much for the profitableness of debate between confirmed partisans. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
We ought in Scriptures rather to seek profitableness than subtle language. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
The subjects of which the Master seldom spoke were-profitableness, and also the appointments of Heaven, and perfect virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The Analects] Reference
The opportunities for lucrative trading and the profitableness of overproduction which they made possible became almost immeasurable. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
During the past summer the College made a study of native nut tree plantations in the State with a view to determining the profitableness of such plantations. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference
And the Liberal are liked almost best of all virtuous characters, because they are profitable to others, and this their profitableness consists in their giving. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
The profitableness of undertaking such a definition is another matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
This led to some conversation about writing, its pecuniary profitableness, subjects for it, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss] Reference
The dignity of this oblation and its profitableness to man are utterly beyond our comprehension. From Wordnik.com. [Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois] Reference
But the actual profitableness of a machine is quite another thing -- out of Freeland, we mean, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Freeland A Social Anticipation] Reference
'But the main source of the profitableness of established banking is the smallness of the requisite capital. From Wordnik.com. [Lombard Street : a description of the money market] Reference
Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them. From Wordnik.com. [VIII. Book I. Of the Wages of Labour] Reference
The question of profitableness of a good many of her employments was often in her mind during these three years. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Accident and Other Stories] Reference
But it has no grace of leaf, nor profitableness of fruit; and it only serves to make the desolation more desolate. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference
This is the case, notwithstanding the profitableness of slavery to the individual owner of that species of property. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiry into the Causes Which Have Retarded the Accumulation of Wealth and Increase of Population in the Southern States: in Which the Question of Slavery is Considered in a Politico-Economical Point of View. By a Carolinian] Reference
The profitableness of Graniteville was often pointed to; there came to be almost a Graniteville legend in this regard. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South] Reference
Clearly as he saw my profitableness to him, he was too much of a brute to reward me with kindness or even decent treatment. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1881. With a Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Introductory Notes by George Sturge, S. Morley, Esq., M. P., Wendell Phillips, and John G. Whittier. Edited by John Lobb, F.R.G.S. Revised and Enlarged.] Reference
Its profitableness is easily accounted for, and consists of the laborer's wages being transferred to the pocket of his master. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiry into the Causes Which Have Retarded the Accumulation of Wealth and Increase of Population in the Southern States: in Which the Question of Slavery is Considered in a Politico-Economical Point of View. By a Carolinian] Reference
Harder is the lot of those who have few necessary occupations, enforced by other claims than their own harmlessness and profitableness. From Wordnik.com. [Deerbrook] Reference
After all, aristocratic as we still are, no party can now afford to choose its men by any other criterion than personal profitableness. From Wordnik.com. [Marcella] Reference
Such was the profitableness of the China trade at this time, that Perez though only an apothecary of mean parentage, had by this time acquired. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
Many enterprisers failed to recognise the profitableness of these types of emerging marketplace applications for computing machines and the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [Money on the internet] Reference
And there follow notices of the receipt of machinery by Clifton mill and praise from Boston of the efficiency and profitableness of factories at Columbus. 221. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South] Reference
For since the medicine has been prepared for this thing, in this case only is it potent and displays its profitableness; and in the other cases is even injurious. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
If the excellence of a newspaper is not always measured by its profitableness, it is generally true that, if it does not pay its owner, it is valueless to the public. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
The natural strength of the land and the skill that enters into the farming are important factors in determining the profitableness of recourse to purchased plant-food. From Wordnik.com. [Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement] Reference
Clearly as he saw my profitableness to him, he was too much of a brute, and too great a fool through his brutality, to reward me with kindness or even decent treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life] Reference
If, among you, a canal is constructed which increases the profitableness of large tracts of land, your recognised economics teaches you that it adds to the prosperity of all. From Wordnik.com. [Freeland A Social Anticipation] Reference
To boost internal profitableness, to struggle against outflows, it would be enough to increase the rates of banks 'deposits in the Central Bank and the Bank of Russia's bonds. From Wordnik.com. [PH "Kommersant"] Reference
Agriculture in Lapland, Finland - profitableness trends World War II. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
A promoter, by visiting other mills, assured himself of the profitableness of an enterprise in his town: "Will a mill pay in Sumter?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South] Reference
"I argue in favour of this doctrine on the ground of its profitableness to the worker. From Wordnik.com. [The Authoritative Life of General William Booth] Reference
306, 307. the pretended profitableness of some sins considered, ibid. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10.] Reference
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