definiteness
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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
For the sake of definiteness, I name the end of March, 1925.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I might further ask for Mr. Ruskin to put more definiteness into his remarks on175 usury, and to particularize the special forms of that condemnable practice which the clergy should boldly denounce.
From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by John Ruskin