definitiveness
Example Sentences
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I had known that the definitiveness of my announcement would make my parents listen.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
Antosca pointed out that the Baptist document has a deeply humanist perspective, emphasizing the distinctness of human life and the definitiveness of death.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2019
In an epilogue, Müller intimates a link between enriched e-texts and pre-Gutenberg culture: A “printed book has a high affinity with the pole of definitiveness, while the handwritten manuscript has a high affinity with optionality.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2015
Here’s what I was told, with some definitiveness, is on Apple’s mind in terms of M&A: Think the “human interface,” said the banker.
From Forbes ● Apr. 25, 2013
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
