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Definition of Definitude
1. n. Definiteness.
Definition of Definitude
1. Noun. definiteness ¹
2. Noun. '''''Definitude''' (...) is a knowledge of minute differences.'' — Sir W. Hamilton. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Definitude
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Definitude
Literary usage of Definitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of Logic by John Veitch (1885)
"This is the extreme of in- definitude, and here 0 does not yield A as contradictory,
but only I. (2. ... This comes very near the definitude of any — ullus. ..."
2. The Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the National by National Teachers' Association (U.S.). Meeting (1885)
"But it may be described as a progress from vagueness to definitude, or from a
low type of organization to progressively higher types of organization. ..."
3. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"... he had not the same training in Greek literature; he did not have the same
definitude of conception, did not care so much that a composition should have ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"Not infinitude but (if I may use the term) in- definitude "foams from the goblet"
of a "spirit-empire" realised through individuals. ..."
5. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton, Henry Longueville Mansel, John Veitch (1870)
"definitude, that is, a knowledge of minute differences, is not, as the opposite
theory supposes, the first, but the last term of our illustrated, ..."
6. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"In contrast with this kind of exaltation, that which the Hindoo religion presents
is only that of in- definitude. In virtue of the prevailing spirituality ..."
7. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... sv NAPPY Old epithet applied to ale : (this is the entry in the previous
editions, and the present editor is unable to give greater definitude to it. ..."
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