Not with the vagueness belonging to the emotions, but with the definiteness belonging to the understanding, the scientific man has to put to himself these questions regarding the introduction of life upon the earth.
Tertullian, moreover, was quite a physicist in the definiteness of his conceptions regarding the soul.
Although walking briskly, and with a certain definiteness of purpose, he was apparently the only unchanging, fixed, and limited point in the now active landscape.
This was remarkable for the perfect definiteness of its termination, for its strongly-forked shape, and for its unusual permanence.
That efficient guarding implies shutting out was presently to be brought home to him with a definiteness leading to embarrassment.
In the dust he was aware of the definiteness of her.
All such careful arithmetical computations add clearness and definiteness to historical and geographical ideas.
She turned upon him, speaking with a definiteness and finality quite equal in force to his display of the same qualities.
But why involve the people of France and the people of the United States in this punishment?
He was one of the founders of the Liberal League, and his courageous definiteness of view and intellectual vigour marked him out as Lord Rosebery's chief lieutenant if that statesman should ever return to power.
The researches of Bouche-Leclercq, Cumont and Boll have enabled us to fix with a considerable degree of definiteness the middle of the 4th century B.
It has that definiteness of mood with that indefiniteness of circumstance in which music wins its most dignified prosperity.
He has carried out this plan also in his book on "Interpretation," a work aiming to bring more definiteness into the fields of performance and terminology.
He did not know how to spell the name and it was not necessary to write it down; the name had taken on that definiteness and ineffaceableness of a thing which, once heard, can never again be forgotten.
But you cannot laugh at the German military train, black with troopers, darting its way across the Kaiserland with a speed and definiteness that is all but human.
And I think that in a preceding chapter I showed you with some definiteness that responsibility is never far from the engine cab.
This constitutes on the whole the metaphysic of Epicurus; in it he has expounded his doctrine of the atom, but not with greater definiteness than did Leucippus and Democritus.
Since we are primarily creatures of action, we crave definiteness and immediacy of decision, and there is a constant temptation to rush to a conclusion.
Too often, however, a person of powerful and distinctive opinions is so moved by the momentum of his own strong enthusiasms, so fixed by the habitual definiteness of his own position that he cannot be swayed.
Critics have pointed out how much of the effectiveness of the greatest writers, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, results from their constant definiteness and concreteness.
In the light of the revelation she re-examined the married lives of all she had ever known, and, with sharp definiteness as never before, she saw where and why so many of them had failed.
Here he floundered a moment, seeking definiteness for the idea he still vaguely grasped.
Throughout this book I have endeavored to give my statements definiteness by the employment of numerous examples, both good and bad.
These differences are especially discernible in (a) the logical qualities of the associations, and (b) the definiteness of statement.
With whatever definiteness they may be set forth, situations are sure to arise which the examiner cannot be formally prepared for.
Nevertheless, since terms like the above are convenient and will probably continue to be used, it is desirable to give them as muchdefiniteness as possible.
Probably neither The Eve of St Agnes nor St Mark's Eve were dated with any definiteness in the poet's mind at all.
But all this individual definiteness was merged into a general blur, or formed itself into a sort of kaleidoscopic pattern that subtly suggested a meaning to be seized.
For, by toil and discipline and facing the fulness of the living world, he had attained to a clear sanity, to a just sense of values; the romantic blur of his early poetic vision clarifying into the strong definiteness of the Real.
The reason was the assumption that the apparent absence ofdefiniteness in national purpose must have been designed as a cover for hidden and selfish ends.
In periods when nations are trying to render firm the basis of peace by remolding and giving precision to their aims, so that these can be made common aims, lack of definiteness in national ideals is a sure source of embarrassment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "definiteness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
