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Definition of Inordinateness
1. Noun. Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.
Generic synonyms: Immoderateness, Immoderation
Specialized synonyms: Extravagance, Extravagancy, Exorbitance, Outrageousness, Embarrassment, Overplus, Plethora, Superfluity
Derivative terms: Excessive, Excessive, Inordinate
Definition of Inordinateness
1. Noun. The quality of being inordinate; unreasonable excess. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inordinateness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inordinateness
Literary usage of Inordinateness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"The rule is, we must avoid inordinateness of affections ; but when we come to
... inordinateness of affections may sometimes make some men like some beasts; ..."
2. Lectures on Christian Theology by Georg Christian Knapp, Leonard Woods (1850)
"Thus it can he conceived that the inordinateness of the bodily appetites, ID
which human depravity might seem at first view to consist, ..."
3. An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter by Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848)
"They arc cast into darkness, for the inordinateness of their concupiscible ;
weep, for the inordinateness of their irascible ; gnash their teeth, ..."
4. General Metaphysics by John Rickaby (1890)
"It is true that there must be intrinsic inordinateness in the sinful acts
themselves ; but given this, we gauge its full deformity only by looking at it on ..."
5. The Science of Ethics by Michael Cronin (1917)
"inordinateness." * It is bad from its very substance and its intrinsic badness
is prior to its evil effects—a fact which should be evident from our ordinary ..."
6. Charity and Its Fruits, Or, Christian Love as Manifested in the Heart and Life by Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards (1856)
"So that if we consider men's love of themselves, or of their own happiness
absolutely, it is plain that the inordinateness of self-love does not consist in ..."
7. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Sin means not merely the privation of good, which is the inordinateness of the
act, but further the act under that privation. ARTICLE III. ..."
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