definiteness

Example Sentences

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That definiteness offers an appealing sense of certainty to the weary and existentially burned-out person living through this down period between the Trump era, COVID, and whatever’s next.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2021

The writer Nat Hentoff saw his playing as having “strength and definiteness of attack, vigorous pulsation and organic logic”.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2016

“The master key consists of 17 principles, the first of which is definiteness of purpose,” and so on.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2012

A large fortune awaits the person who can show the average publisher with any definiteness the surest means of bringing a book to public attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus we are not shut up to the assumption of the piecemeal variation of minute parts; there is greater definiteness and less fortuitousness in variation than was previously supposed.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)