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Definition of Selectiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selectiveness
Literary usage of Selectiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studia Biblica Et Ecclesiastica: Essays Chiefly in Biblical and Patristic by University of Oxford (1891)
"There was from the first an element of inscrutable selectiveness in God's dealings
within ... Then, at any rate, if God's arbitrary selectiveness is a fact, ..."
2. Science and a Future Life by James Hervey Hyslop (1905)
"The first of these is the selectiveness of the process involved in the phenomena
presented. If telepathy between the living is the explanation of them it ..."
3. The Moral Ideal: A Historic Study by Julia Wedgwood (1907)
"It avoids tinction is the selectiveness of Literature; for its vision no fact is
in- by ... But, above all, Science avoids the selectiveness of Morality. ..."
4. A Study in Moral Problems by Bertram Mitchell Laing (1922)
"It is doubtful, however, if selectiveness provides any basis for a distinction
between organic and chemical processes. Chemical processes carried out in the ..."
5. Hermais: A Study in Comparative Esthetics by Colin McAlpin (1915)
"It is true the landscape-painter may also exercise selectiveness, but within such
... In landscape-painting much of the artist's apparent selectiveness is ..."
6. Publications by Bureau of Government Laboratories, Philippines, Department of the Interior (1904)
"Amebas show a certain selectiveness for symbiotic bacteria,, and this selectiveness
may be increased and changed on artificial media. ..."
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