dependableness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Certainly, if there were not two or three narratives which have an air of veracity and dependableness, bearing out the belief to some slight extent, I should not have noticed it here.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

The more I depended on them the greater was their dependableness, and the little girls grew more tender, the boys more chivalrous.

From The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

It was like a breaking instinct of dependableness; and then he called up Dr. Bennington.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick

Th' ain't no finer trait, in my opinion, in man or woman, than dependableness, an' that's another reason I take sech special delight in the little daughter, Mary Elizabeth.

From Sonny, a Christmas Guest by Stuart, Ruth McEnery

Oh, she is rigid New England," Mrs. Tully insisted, "the solidest of creatures as to honor and rectitude, dependableness and faithfulness.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack