relativeness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of relativeness
Example Sentences
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The relativeness of sensation is then developed at length, and for a moment the definition appears to be accepted.
From Theaetetus by Benjamin Jowett
This is a striking illustration of the mere relativeness of such words as "morality," "refinement," and their opposites.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Bayard Tuckerman
Words were fitted to all the calls, which generally bore some relativeness to the signal, but these were as, destitute of congruity as of sense.
From Andersonville A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy
This is the art of calculating the differences existing between each thing, by determining the relativeness of their respective proportions.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
There is a praiseworthy relativeness and life in the morality of our best old divines.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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