centrednesscenterednessn.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike lx. 470 That I did with the joy of concentricity or a mutual centredness [L. concentricitatis], purely resign up my tribulations unto my most bountiful Jesus.

1883 W. R. Percival in E. Davies Great Thoughts Great Truths 367 In every able minister of the New Testament there is ever manifest a calm sense of centredness in God.

1900 Cornhill Mag. July 43 Townshend was left a stranger to this centredness of purpose, and misgiving touched him.

1986 M. Hughes Blaine's Way (1989) xii. 214 I looked at the two dearest people in my growing-up world, the people who'd given me a centredness, a security.

1998 Gramophone Jan. 17/2 Her longing for greater centredness, for at least a modicum of serenity, became an obsession.

2011 New Yorker 25 July 59/1 Creativity comes from open-mindedness and centeredness—seeing things in a nonemotionally charged way.

1906 Bible Student & Teacher May 361 Indeed, can not Christianity..be summarized in the single word—God-centeredness?

1956 E. Fromm Art of Loving ii. 45 Hysteria, alcoholism, inability to assert oneself and to cope with life realistically, and depressions, result from mother-centredness.

1971 P. J. Jehlik in Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 77/1 These values may include the desire for privacy and beauty, the opportunity to relate to others, the exercise of individuality, family centeredness, and an otherwise psychologically satisfying family environment.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 7 Sept. r3/4 I have..known schools which bruited abroad their commitment to democracy and child-centredness.

2006 D. Edgerton Shock of Old vii. 165 Innovation-centredness leads to looking at Auschwitz as the great modern factory of human death.