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Definition of Imperativeness

1. Noun. The state of demanding notice or attention. "The press of business matters"

2. Noun. The quality of being insistent. "He pressed his demand with considerable instancy"

Definition of Imperativeness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being imperative. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imperativeness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperativeness

impennous impens impentamine impeople impeopled impeoples impeopling imperate imperatival imperative

imperative conception imperative language imperative mood imperative moods imperatively imperativeness (current term) imperatives imperativist imperativists imperator

imperatorial imperatorian imperators imperatory imperceivable imperceivableness imperceived imperceptibility imperceptible imperceptibly

Literary usage of Imperativeness

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

1. An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy by John Grote (1870)
"MORAL imperativeness AS BASED UPON IDEALITY OR BELIEF IN HIGHER FACT. I HAVE called the appeal to human consciousness General in any form, in reference to ..."

2. Phreno-geology: The Progressive Creation of Man, Indicated by Natural by James Stanley Grimes (1851)
"Origin of imperativeness, or Self-Esteem. — The impulse to command: " Order is heaven's first law ; and, this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than ..."

3. Problems of Creation by James Stanley Grimes (1881)
"This is the impulsive propensity to maintain the social position which imperativeness has impelled us to assume. Firmness necessarily rests upon ..."

4. The Congregational Review (1887)
"It is the true spirituality which is a sense of the reality of God, of the seriousness and value of life, of the imperativeness of duty. ..."

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