Lexicographical Neighbors of Quietive
Literary usage of Quietive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Princeton Review by James Manning Sherwood, Jonas M. Libbey, John Forsyth, Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, Henry Boynton Smith (1878)
"The result of this "quietive" is virtue. It is not the "affirmation," but
the "denial " of the will. We must rise from the consideration of the world as ..."
2. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1887)
"It is brought about, firstly, by the quietive of the will, which consists in the
knowledge of its inner contradiction and of its essential nothingness; ..."
3. A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences.: (Including the Vocabulary of by William Fleming, Henry Calderwood (1881)
"Instead of making sorrow the quietive of the will, he throws it from him by
destroying the body, which is but the phenomenon of the will, destroys it that ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"... and pain attributes and its relations to self, its object, the sufferings of
the pitied one, the results of it, its value as a motive and a quietive. ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"... so quietive, in so full confirmation to my mind of the truth of the Christian
religion"—• the truth, namely, of the rationality of Christian doctrine, ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... the broken will generally comes only where a mighty shock of* grief reveals
the inevitable pain of existence and brings a quietive to the lust of life. ..."
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