fixity

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As it often does, the League for Safeguarding the Fixity of the Sabbath Against Possible Encroachment by Calendar Reform, stiffened its back last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fixity and rigidity in social life would give place to flexibility and wise continual adaptation.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

Fixity, indeed, is a characteristic of the signs which have been expressly invented for scientific use, such as algebraical notation or the nomenclature of chemistry.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey

Fixity of attention depends on slow breathing; quick or uneven breaths are an inevitable accompaniment of harmful emotional states: fear, lust, anger.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

Fixity of residence and thickening of population are perhaps the prime requisites for civilization, and hence it will be found that all civilizations as yet known have taken place in regions physically limited. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert