Distinctness

Word DISTINCTNESS
Character 12
Hyphenation dis tinct ness
Pronunciations N/A

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One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Like a man who is drowning, and close to death, he saw with surprising distinctness a kaleidoscopic view of his past life. ❋ Charles Klein (1891)

Pathfinder_ and T.oreau; the scent of the soil, once again, in rain and in shine, is it not conveyed to us with an astonishing distinctness, that is the product of a literary endowment of the rarest order, by such writers as Izaak Walton and Robert Burns, and among recent writers in varying degrees by Richard Jefferies and by Barnes, by T. E. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

Her very words had a sort of distinctness which is sometimes produced by sharp, bodily pain. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In the constitutional debate, our obsession with the arithmetic of equalization and the vocabulary of "distinctness" has obscured the importance of this moral dimension, the dimension of justice. ❋ Unknown (1992)

The Affections cannot be analyzed and comprehended with the same kind of distinctness with which we comprehend Thought and Imagination; because that which belongs to the Understanding can be expressed or described in words, and in that form be passed from one to another; while the ❋ Mary G. Chandler (N/A)

They were outlined with that sharp, black distinctness which is seen when at night a fireman runs along the outer walls of a burning building. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)

At day-break, and for about half an hour before sunrise, if the weather be clear, even sharp peaks, like the cone of Teneriffe, may be seen with a degree of distinctness which is very remarkable, when viewed from the distance of a hundred miles and upwards, as I have several times experienced when navigating in the Pacific. ❋ Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 (1862)

This is called spherical aberration, and to it is due the want of distinctness which is frequently noticed around the edges of pictures taken in the camera. ❋ Unknown (1853)

The FWS's recent decision, however, found that the comparison between a landlocked Washington State population and the estuarine population of the California Bay-Delta was inappropriate and inconclusive as to the Bay-Delta population's genetic "distinctness" from other populations within the species 'larger geographic range. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves: Dorothea had early begun to emerge from that stupidity, but yet it had been easier to her to imagine how she would devote herself to Mr. Casaubon, and become wise and strong in his strength and wisdom, than to conceive with that distinctness which is no longer reflection but feeling-an idea wrought back to the directness of sense, like the solidity of objects - that he had an equivalent centre of self, whence the lights and shadows must always fall with a certain difference. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves: Dorothea had early begun to emerge from that stupidity, but yet it had been easier to her to imagine how she would devote herself to Mr. Casaubon, and become wise and strong in his strength and wisdom, than to conceive with that distinctness which is no longer reflection but feeling -- an idea wrought back to the directness of sense, like the solidity of objects -- that he had an equivalent centre of self, whence the lights and shadows must always fall with a certain difference. ❋ Unknown (1871)

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