Adjective : serviceable cloth. From Dictionary.com.
1 Cor. xii., to teach them mutual love, care, and serviceableness to one another. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
So it is, but it is also a process by which individuals are fitted for serviceableness to the group life. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
I take the liberty of congratulating you upon the completion of a record of rare serviceableness and distinction. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Exit Araspas, to be baptised under this cloud of ignominy into the sunshine of recognised joyous serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
It is shabby to offer Him the mere hull of the boat when the storms of passion have carried its serviceableness away. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The friend to whose serviceableness in pecuniary matters I have already alluded, offered me the use of a saddle-horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
There are many tendencies toward extreme individualism which need balancing by clearer ideals of social serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
We are not intent on them as such, nor do we take any one of them seriously as a whole, in its essence; we are only interested in them according to their serviceableness for our purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:] Reference
The case stands thus: there are two principles concerned in the tenure of the magistrate's office -- theoretic amenability to the letter of the law, and practical serviceableness for his duties. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
James, instead of thanking the ministers and councillors for their diligence in the matter, blamed them for their super-serviceableness, and so gave the impression that he was in sympathy with the plot. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference
Are love of father and mother on the part of children, affection and serviceableness between brothers and sisters, straight-forwardness and truthfulness between business men, essentially dependent upon these beliefs?. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Fayard and Perrin, for their serviceableness in the matter. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
Secondly, Her serviceableness to him: On which thou hast ridden. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
The high origin and the admirable serviceableness of the soul of man. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
He takes notice of Job's former serviceableness to the comfort of others. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
The only real test of health is the serviceableness to the needs of life. From Wordnik.com. [Psychotherapy] Reference
Even assured of its congruity, he will still question its serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference
He must abjure wealth and position, in favour of humble kindliness and serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [From a College Window] Reference
To him more than to any other man it owes its organized life and its missionary serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [Unitarianism in America] Reference
But it is by no means yet certain that they have lost serviceableness as, at least, outworks of the stronghold. From Wordnik.com. [Miracles and Supernatural Religion] Reference
He finds now that the form itself -- over and above the practical serviceableness of the bowl -- gives him pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life] Reference
Some indication of the serviceableness of the college is suggested by what has been said of the scope and character of its patronage. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913] Reference
They serve to teach him many most valuable lessons, and to round out his character into a far more symmetrical beauty and serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God] Reference
Bulstrode's standard had been his serviceableness to God's cause: "I am sinful and nought -- a vessel to be consecrated by use -- but use me!". From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care. From Wordnik.com. [Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South] Reference
But the serviceableness of the stipulation is most vividly illustrated by referring to the actual examples in the pages of the Latin comic dramatists. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference
And that he will not do so without sympathy is guaranteed by an engaging sincerity and eager modest serviceableness which stamp him as a man of amiable nature. From Wordnik.com. [Act I] Reference
None of these heating attachments is sure to prove fully satisfactory, but any one of them is likely to add a great deal to the serviceableness of the bathroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
In one case the product is more obviously and immediately practical, and the informing purpose tends to become obscured in the actual serviceableness of the result. From Wordnik.com. [The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life] Reference
They may enjoy the beauty of animals, but scarcely even that: a true peasant cannot see the beauty of cattle; but only qualities expressive of their serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870] Reference
If they answer that use, the country will rejoice in keeping them; if not, that will become of them which must of all things found to have lost their serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
They may enjoy the beauty of animals, but scarcely even that: a true peasant cannot see the beauty of cattle; but only the qualities expressive of their serviceableness. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
His serviceableness to his friends was unwearied, and his generous liberality toward all whom he could help either with his interest, his trouble, or his purse was unfailing. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
But long exposures were impracticable until Sir William Huggins, in 1876, adopted the dry-plate process; and this date, accordingly, marks the beginning of the wide-spreading serviceableness of the camera to astronomy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
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