It is not the judgment of arbitrariness or caprice.
He believes that there is room for arbitrariness in the divine procedure.
In truth, its failure and confusion resulted less from the arbitrariness of its procedure, than from the hopeless absence of tenacity, conviction, and consistency in the substance and direction of its objects.
The parable illustrates not arbitrarinessof election nor irresistible sovereignty but a double freedom—freedom in God to change His decrees for moral reasons, freedom on man’s part to thwart God’s designs for him.
With such a Creator, such a Providence, there could be neither arbitrariness nor caprice.
In the characters of the great sovereigns of the eighteenth century, who created new, stricter, more regular forms of government, the same contrast appears between personal arbitrariness and devotion to this universal law founded by them.
Under these suppositions, moral principles not only lose their objective and solid consistency in the mass of mankind, but they also become irrevocably subject to the arbitrariness of the single individual.
But on the other hand we dare not conceal that, even on the ground of explanations belonging purely to natural history, the character of hypothesis is often lost in that of arbitrariness and of the undemonstrable.
In fact, this linguistic arbitrariness does not particularly tend to clearness of conception and to the avoidance of obscure phrases.
The Republic was conceived, it is true, without bias of party or race, but there is none the less a strain of arbitrariness and illiberality in it.
Mediaevalism is condemned, not for its universalism, but for its arbitrariness and untruth; for its mistaking of the weight of collective opinion, or of institutional prestige, for the weight of evidence.
The opposite doctrine attributes an irrational arbitrariness to God.
Bowne: "Pure arbitrariness and pure necessity are alike incompatible with reason.
In the very act of criticizing the deists, he complains of Locke's arbitrariness in deriving morality from the will of God.
His commentaries on the books of the Old and New Testaments illustrate the extremearbitrariness of the typical-allegorical method.
But, in spite of the arbitrariness and incorrectness of the fundamental assumption of positive philosophy, it was accepted by the so-called cultivated world with the greatest sympathy.
In opposition to this arbitrariness and culture there must be the implicitly and explicitly universal, that which is in thought, not as wise governor or morality, but as law, and at the same time as my Being and my thought, i.
The real has also an external existence, which displays arbitrariness and contingency, like a tree, a house, a plant, which in nature come into existence.
All law is supposed to be just, otherwise it is arbitrariness and not law.
For not only was Takauji closely related to the Minamoto clan whom the Hojo had overthrown, but he also viewed with strong disfavor the oppressive arbitrariness of the latter.
The knowledge of the Hebrew language, the basis of a healthy, rational exegesis, was still scanty, and arbitrariness had every opportunity of asserting itself.
A new phase of the arbitrariness of ever-changing organisations was introduced into the strict and precise mechanism of the railway services in the centre as well as throughout the country.
The Central Representative Institutions and the Ministry of Agriculture, under Tchernov, issued appeals against arbitrariness and for the preservation of the land, pending the decision of the Constituent Assembly.
The so-called arbitrariness of the Language of Nature is relative to us, and from our point of view.
Here we have Berkeley's favourite thought of the divine arbitrariness of the constitution of Nature, and of its laws of change.
Certainly the inevitable arbitrariness of the connection between the premium and the claim of the insured is thereby magnified; but we do not allow that to trouble us.
My duty will not permit me so far to suppose my father arbitrary, as to make a plea of that arbitrariness to you-- How now, Clary!
There rallied round the author to oppose arbitrariness and injustice those even who a little time before had attacked him the most violently.
The whole effort would then seem determined from the start by the arbitrariness of the proposed ground-plan.
From this example we see again the great contribution whicharbitrariness or free choice has made to all our structure of science.
Now it cannot be denied indeed that a certain factor of arbitrariness has to enter into a programme.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arbitrariness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: caprice; domineering; moodiness; petulance; tyranny
