Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being dependable; reliableness.
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- noun
Dependability .
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- noun the quality of being dependable or reliable
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Examples
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As he rode along, learning the good nature, the roguishness and the dependableness of the animal, Graham hummed the words of the Gypsy
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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When I had proved to my satisfaction the dependableness of the steward, and just as I was on the verge of returning to the poop, I was drawn aside by the weird crying of penguins in the darkness and by the unmistakable noise of a whale blowing not far away.
CHAPTER XXXII 2010
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A girl who because of her dependableness will be of great value in home, school and community is being made by the sane, wise sympathy of mother and teacher.
The Girl and Her Religion Margaret Slattery
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Sharing in the responsibility of the home begets self-reliance and dependableness in later life.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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Your greatest success will be achieved in some field of service where dependableness is a primary essential.
Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins
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As he rode along, learning the good nature, the roguishness and the dependableness of the animal, Graham hummed the words of the
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When I had proved to my satisfaction the dependableness of the steward, and just as I was on the verge of returning to the poop, I was drawn aside by the weird crying of penguins in the darkness and by the unmistakable noise of a whale blowing not far away.
Chapter 32 1914
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A mighty comfortable soul she was, giving one the nice smooth mother-feeling a man likes in a woman, and yet giving also the clear intelligence and dependableness I used to assume to be masculine qualities.
Herland 1915
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Her great attraction was her dependableness and her domesticity, for she was consistently lazy - her fondest lover could not deny that.
My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914
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Scarcely anyone is there, now writing mystery stories, who, with the combination of ingenuity -- or perhaps I should say originality -- dependableness, and a sufficient atmosphere comes up to the high and steady level of Frank L. Packard.
When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908
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