Adjective : reliable information. From Dictionary.com.
There can be no reliableness of character without repose. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Of course, these proxies for reliableness - links, market evaluation, geographic proximity - wouldn't be perfect. From Wordnik.com. ["A New York Times reporter is just a blogger who..."] Reference
She has no continuity, no reliableness, no self-control. From Wordnik.com. [A Pessimist In Theory and Practice] Reference
Now, secondly, note the reliableness of this condensed Gospel. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference
It means reliableness, and convinces other men that it can be trusted. From Wordnik.com. [Character] Reference
Is there steadiness, do you think, and depth, and reliableness altogether?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
The question of the reliableness of these superscriptions is hotly debated. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms] Reference
He began and he finishes with them, as if he were not sure of their reliableness. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Thus reliableness becomes a passport to the general esteem and confidence of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Character] Reference
Their original unbelief is a strong argument for the reliableness of their final faith. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
The contrast will then be between partial 'grace' or kindness, and thoroughgoing reliableness or trustworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Like the rest of mankind, he has lights and shadows in his life, and a variety of moods, yet underneath all this he has a pleasing sameness that is the essence of reliableness. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Comments] Reference
It has been said of Sheridan that, had he possessed reliableness of character, he might have ruled the world; whereas, for want of it, his splendid gifts were comparatively useless. From Wordnik.com. [Character] Reference
I ventured to say that one of the other promises of the Spirit, which I quoted in my introductory remarks, was the certificate to us of the inspiration and reliableness of these Four. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
Equipped with low-backed saddles, they stand, their noses down, their eyes contemplatively closed, their whole appearance impressing one with an air of practical talent and reliableness. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference
He explained how he arrived at this estimate, the reliableness of which is beyond dispute, though it may seem incredible to those who have not been in southern seas during the season when the sooty petrels. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders]
No doubt very much like other men, and by no means such a hero to the world at large as this fond girl made him out to be; but Robert Lyon had, with all people, and under all circumstances, the character of reliableness. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.] Reference
These overseers had proved their faithfulness and earned the right to be trusted entirely, and the way to get the best out of a man, if he has any reliableness in him, is to trust him utterly, and to show him that you do. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
He explained how he arrived at this estimate, the reliableness of which is beyond dispute, though it may seem incredible to those who have not been in southern seas during the season when the sooty petrels "most do congregate.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference
Highly esteemed by his colleagues for his straight-forwardness, reliableness, punctuality, and conscientious fidelity in all his official duties, he exercised, here, his calling as teacher in a circle of hearers, at first relatively narrow, but which soon grew visibly larger, especially in the case of his lectures on. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
The principal clerk, Mr. Wilding, who has since succeeded to the Vice-Consulship, was a man of English integrity, -- not that the English are more honest than ourselves, but only there is a certain sturdy reliableness common among them, which we do not quite so invariably manifest in just these subordinate positions, -- of. From Wordnik.com. [Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches] Reference
"It is better to give the old gentleman a little time to establish his reliableness; for in truth he is yet very young -- a mere child of eight or ten years. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
In Miss Pardoe the unfortunate Queen has found both these requisites, and the result has been a biography combining the attractiveness of romance with the reliableness of history, and which, taking a place midway between the 'frescoed galleries' of Thierry, and the 'philosophic watch-tower of Guizot,' has all the pictorial brilliancy of the one, with much of the reflective speculation of the other. ". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Original Family Documents] Reference
Alert's crew, in a company of gentlemen, I heard him say that that crew was exceptional; that he had passed all his life at sea, but whether before the mast or abaft, whether officer or master, he had never met such a crew, and never should expect to; and that the two officers of the Alert, long ago shipmasters, agreed with him that, for intelligence, knowledge of duty and willingness to perform it, pride in the ship, her appearance and sailing, and in absolute reliableness, they never had seen their equal. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
Once, in speaking of the Alert's crew, in a company of gentlemen, I heard him say that that crew was exceptional: that he had passed all his life at sea, but whether before the mast or abaft, whether officer or master, he had never met such a crew, and never should expect to; and that the two officers of the Alert, long ago shipmasters, agreed with him that, for intelligence, knowledge of duty and willingness to perform it, pride in the ship, her appearance and sailing, and in absolute reliableness, they never had seen their equal. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
Once, in speaking of the Alerts crew, in a company of gentlemen, I heard him say that that crew was exceptional: that he had passed all his life at sea, but whether before the mast or abaft, whether officer or master, he had never met such a crew, and never should expect to; and that the two officers of the Alert, long ago shipmasters, agreed with him that, for intelligence, knowledge of duty and willingness to perform it, pride in the ship, her appearance and sailing, and in absolute reliableness, they never had seen their equal. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Four Years Later] Reference
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