Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being serviceable; usefulness in promoting good of any kind; beneficialness.
- noun Helpfulness; readiness to do service.
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- noun the state or condition of being
serviceable
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- noun the quality of being able to provide good service
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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Exit Araspas, to be baptised under this cloud of ignominy into the sunshine of recognised joyous serviceableness.
Cyropaedia 2007
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During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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The sane economic ideal is to make the possession of money the clear indication of public serviceableness, and the more nearly that ideal is attained, the smaller is the justification of poverty and the less the hardship of being poor.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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It is sad to them to lose so much of their life, and peace, and serviceableness to God; and to become so serviceable to Satan and his cause.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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All that really is offered in the behalf of apostasy, as to its serviceableness in this kind, is, that it is suited to ingenerate in believers a fear of hell, which will put them upon all ways of mortifying the flesh and the fruits of it, which otherwise would bring them thereinto.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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