Example Sentences

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Words were fitted to all the calls, which generally bore some relativeness to the sigmal, but these were as, destitute of congruity as of sense.

From Andersonville — Volume 1 A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by McElroy, John

He also comprehended the relativeness of words, the vagueness of conceptions, the faultiness of all communion, but was nevertheless not so broad-minded that he found extenuating circumstances everywhere and for everyone.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

There is a praiseworthy relativeness and life in the morality of our best old divines.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

It is by abstracting reckless contingencies, and by relying only upon the relativeness of facts, that we can succeed in discovering the truth that there are too many representations as to these facts.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard

This is the art of calculating the differences existing between each thing, by determining the relativeness of their respective proportions.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard