determinate
adjective
having defined limits; definite.
determinateness
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a word derived from
determinate.
Example Sentences
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So that it would have no value whatsoever, it could not even be grasped by thought in its particular determinateness, if it were not presented as the natural form of that precise thought.
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
All of which fluctuations augured ill for the determinateness of that love, which, however immensely devoted to one cause, could yet hoist and sail under the flags of all nations.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Natural individuality appearing as national determinateness was still acknowledged, but was deprived of its abstract isolation.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
It is precisely this universality, which belongs exclusively to it, together with the greatest determinateness, that gives music the high worth which it has as the panacea for all our woes.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
The unity of the abstractly natural and abstractly spiritual determinateness is the concrete unity of the spirit with nature, in which it recognizes nature as its necessary organ, and itself as in its nature divine.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
