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Definition of Fitnesses
1. fitness [n] - See also: fitness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fitnesses
Literary usage of Fitnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological by Asa Gray (1880)
"He cannot point to a time where there were no fitnesses, apparent or latent, and
if he argues that all fitnesses were germinal in the nebulous matter of our ..."
2. Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (1873)
"... from Biblical Texts; Objections to the Use of Texts; Different Methods of
Selecting Texts; the fitnesses of Passages of the Bible ior Texts of Sermons. ..."
3. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mind by Thomas Brown (1846)
"If the world had been adapted for the production of misery, with fitnesses opposite
indeed in kind, but exactly equal in number and nicety of adjustment to ..."
4. Christianity and Modern Thought (1880)
"history, physics, and chemistry, are the science of mutual fitnesses and uses
among terrestrial objects. Astronomy is the science of harmonies among all the ..."
5. A Manual of Moral Philosophy: Designed for Colleges and High Schools by Andrew Preston Peabody (1873)
"While, therefore, in the mutual and reciprocal fitnesses that pervade the universe
we find demonstrative evidence of the being, unity, and moral perfectness ..."
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