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Definition of Criticalness

1. Noun. A state of critical urgency.

Definition of Criticalness

1. n. The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.

Definition of Criticalness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being critical. ¹

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Definition of Criticalness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Criticalness

Literary usage of Criticalness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Addresses by Henry Drummond (1891)
"And if we can carry away the mere lessons of toleration, and leave behind us our censoriousness, and criticalness, and harsh judgments upon one another, ..."

2. Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1896)
"... because he knows that it will seem to them as if at once the old need of struggle, the old criticalness of living were gone with the old fear of hell; ..."

3. Purpose and Use of Comfort, and Other Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1906)
"I mean the criticalness of life. All men who have believed at all that there ... That thought of criticalness belongs to every limited period of being which ..."

4. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1899)
"Upon many of the delegates the criticalness of the situation had a solemnizing effect. It intensified their sense of responsibility, lifted them above all ..."

5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"But the criticalness of the present nomination puts him out of the question. As the great mass of the functions of the new judge are to be performed in his ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1898)
"He has accepted the professor's theories in toto, and we fear that he has not read them with the same "criticalness" which he has applied to the writings of ..."

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