For centuries nations may live under forms that meet their requirements, forms suitable to a feeble state; but it is altogether illusory to suppose that such an adaptedness can continue for ever.
From an observation of one of the Fathers, it would seem that after the Gospel had been preached among the Greeks, many of them perceived its adaptedness to accomplish the end for which they had sought in vain.
Notice, secondly, the design and adaptedness of the miracles, not only to distinguish the power of the true God, but to destroy the confidence placed in the protection and power of the idols.
The ground of the moral striving--it can hardly be called obligation--is the adaptedness of it to secure this result.
They are regarded as trials and tests as to his adaptedness to the purpose for which he is created.
A wide field swells out before me in this resolution, for it is nothing less than the universality of God's Word in its complete adaptedness to the possible conditions of humanity.
Next survey and visit systematically all the families in the district, and present the objects and the value and adaptedness of the Sunday-school to their wants.
The whole character and influence of a Sabbath-school will depend largely upon the character and adaptedness of the superintendent.
Ages ago, Paul declared to philosophizing Greek and scornful Roman that he was not ashamed of this gospel, and alleged for his reason this very adaptedness to humanity.
On the other side, congenital histological adaptedness may be regarded hypothetically as due to an inheritance of adaptive characters which had been acquired by the organism’s activity, exerted during a great number of generations.
So-called genuine or innate immunity, in contrast to the immunity which is acquired, is of course a case of adaptedness only and not of adaptation.
But, the merely descriptive facts of mechanical adaptedness having been ascertained, there have now been discovered real mechanical processes of adaptations also.
It has also very often been said by Darwinians that Lamarckism is only able to explain those cases of adaptedness which relate to active functioning but not mere passive adapted characters, like “mimicry” for example.
There also exists a high degree of specific adaptedness in some animals with regard to their faculty of coagulating blood.
Woman has a power of adaptedness that fits her admirably for the vocation of a merchant.
The want of adaptedness of the opera to the English language has to a great extent excluded successful efforts at translation.
Owing to the importance which Aristotle ascribed to the final cause this work became really a treatise on the functions of the parts, a discussion of the problems of the relation of form to function, and the adaptedness of structure.
We seize here the relation of the principle of the adaptedness of parts to the problem of the variety of form.
Adaptedness is the most general fact of life, and innumerable lesser facts can be grouped as particular cases of it, can be, so far, understood.
His voyage round the world on the Beagle aroused in him keen interest in the problem of species--their variety, their variation according to place and time, their adaptedness to environment.
The principle of the adaptedness of parts may be used as an explanatory principle, enabling the naturalist to trace out in detail the interdependence of functions and their organs.
This adaptednessof the capillaries is, however, more usually an inherited state, i.
Its recommendation is its remarkable adaptedness to summer culture; as it withstands heat and drought, and retains its head to a remarkable degree before running to seed.
Of its perfect adaptedness to the soil and climate of almost any section of this country, there can scarcely be a doubt.
This graphic representation of squalor and consummate misery gives pre-eminence to heradaptedness as a successful missionary of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.
These considerations would induce us to think that recognition hereafter is not sure, but turns on the condition that we preserve a remembrance, desire, and adaptedness for one another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adaptedness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
