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Example sentences for "purposefulness"

Lexicographically close words:
purpos; purpose; purposed; purposeful; purposefully; purposeless; purposely; purposes; purposeth; purposing
  1. Sitting his horse with evident difficulty, animated by mere strength of will, his wasted frame rigidly upright, his sombre tragic eyes peering steadfastly ahead, he seemed in his grim purposefulness the very incarnation of avenging justice.

  2. He was conscious of a purposefulness and a keen interest in life to which he had long been a stranger.

  3. Purposefulness accounted for the intelligibility of nature and the possibility of science, while the absolute or cosmic character of this purposefulness gave sanction and worth to the moral and religious endeavors of man.

  4. And purposefulness as a potentiality is thus carried back to the very foundation and "beginning," to the fundamental conditions and primary factors of the cosmos itself.

  5. With persistent purposefulness Clovis and his Merovingian successors intrigued and fought.

  6. The quality of purposefulness becomes clearer as they emerge from the forest obscurity of their origins into the open light of history.

  7. General Manager, with a note of purposefulness in his voice.

  8. Harboro put a new note of purposefulness into his voice.

  9. She was shy of Canterton, and ready to hide behind the child, for there was a grim purposefulness about his idealism that made her afraid.

  10. He was the very antithesis of the city worker, having much of the large purposefulness of Nature in him, never moving jerkily, or chattering, or letting his eyes snap restlessly at motes in the sunlight.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purposefulness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.