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deˈterminateness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being determinate.
1. Definiteness, distinctness, preciseness.
1692Covt. Grace Conditional 14 No way evacuating either the efficacy or determinateness of God's Election. 1846Poe N.P. Willis Wks. 1864 III. 30 The word fancy is used with very little determinateness of meaning. 1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. 31 Each of their marks..has been limited to a completely individual determinateness.
2. Decidedness of judgement or choice; resoluteness; determination.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 22 He reprooves..their..peremptory determinatenes, ‘Ye say, it will be to day’. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park (1851) 83 His determinateness and his power seemed to make allies unneccessary. |