commodiousness

Part of the "commodiousness" of a building should be how it serves people who may never enter it.

Frank Gruber: Urban Design, the Book: Part Two of a Review 2010

We had a pleasing conviction of the commodiousness of civilization, and heartily laughed at the ravings of those absurd visionaries who have attempted to persuade us of the superior advantages of a state of nature.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

The chief hotel at Sherton – Abbas was an old stone-fronted inn with a yawning arch, under which vehicles were driven by stooping coachmen to back premises of wonderful commodiousness.

The Woodlanders 2006

Having said this in his First Book of Good Deeds, he says again, that both commodiousness and grace pertain to mean or indifferent things, none of which according to them, is profitable.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

So in the wood and the hollows he hid a number of archers and spearmen, confident that the commodiousness of the place would allure the Romans.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

“The boundless extent of territory we possess, the wholesome temperament of our climate, the luxuriance and fertility of our soil, the variety of our products, the rapidity of the growth of our population, the industry of our countrymen, and the commodiousness of our ports” had caused “a jealousy of our dawning splendor.”

Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

“The boundless extent of territory we possess, the wholesome temperament of our climate, the luxuriance and fertility of our soil, the variety of our products, the rapidity of the growth of our population, the industry of our countrymen, and the commodiousness of our ports” had caused “a jealousy of our dawning splendor.”

Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

The harbors are very marvels of commodiousness, that of Port Jackson, the entrance to Sydney, being fifteen miles long.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

Agricola by men of experience, that never had any captain more sagely chosen his stations for commodiousness and situation; for that no place of strength founded by him, was ever taken by violence, or abandoned upon articles or despair.

The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus