relativeness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of relativeness
Example Sentences
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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
Reasoning is the art of fixing the relativeness of things.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
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 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
It is by abstracting reckless contingencies, and by relying only upon the relativeness of facts, that we can succeed in discovering the truth that there are too many representations as to these facts.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
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