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serviceableness|ˈsɜːvɪsəb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. serviceable + -ness.]
The quality of being serviceable.
1. Readiness for service, helpfulness. Now rare.
1564Haward Eutropius x. R iij b, He estemed him greatly for the earnest trauaile and payns which he sustained in the battail..& for other seruiceablenesse & good endeuor, which he apperceiued to be in him. 1578J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. xlv. 120 All godlinesse,..seruisablenesse, stayednesse, temperance. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. 77 Contending by laudable means, which shall surpasse other in their Serviceablenesse to God. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. ix. (1852) 154 Having always but low expectations, after he had merited as highly as possible by his universal serviceableness. 1878F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood II. vi. 196 His serviceableness to his friends was unwearied. 1886Herford Lit. Rel. Eng. & Germany 317 The polished urbanity of King Alphonso's guest, the ironical serviceableness of the merchant's clerk.
2. Usefulness, ability to render service or to promote the interests of another.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. App. i. xi. (1712) 210 Those long and subordinate concatenations of instrumental serviceableness of such things, say they, is but our fancy, no design of any First Cause. 1721De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 268 The serviceableness of these small bodies of firemen. 1851Ruskin Sheepfolds 46 There is no fear that the civil officer should underrate the dignity or shorten the serviceableness of the minister. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent ii. x. 421 Not undervaluing the force and serviceableness of his argument. |