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- noun nonstandard, philosophy The
reason why ; thecause orintent .
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Examples
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The "whyness" of our various experiences is revealed when they are displayed in their true relations and given their true value in the scheme of individual evolution.
Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896
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The next conception of the "whyness" of children's diseases was that as one star differs from another in glory, so does one germ differ from another in virulence; that the germs of these particular diseases just happened to be from the beginning unusually mild and at the same time highly contagious, so that they remained permanently scattered about throughout the community, and attacked each successive brood of newborn children as quickly as they could conveniently get at them.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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It is important for us to understand the whyness and whatness of sorrow and express the same as it must be expressed.
Understanding the Etiquette of Greeting mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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It is important for us to understand the whyness and whatness of sorrow and express the same as it must be expressed.
Archive 2008-02-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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The people hereabouts, while used to all sorts of freaks, can hardly understand how one can idly walk through the country with no higher ambition than the taking of a picture here and there, and many are the questions to be answered as to the whyness of the whichness, the old farmer generally going on with a dubious shake of the head, convinced that there is a screw loose somewhere.
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They finally appeared, Lewis and Harris standing about and listening in unenthusiastic silence as Mr. Fulton glowingly explained the whyness of the various devices and improvements that made the
Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island Gordon Stuart
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He has wound himself into her heart and the "whyness of the what" is packing up to go.
Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912
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He has wound himself into her heart and the "whyness of the what" is packing up to go.
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Motives are mixed, and foolish folks who ask questions about why certain men do certain things, do not know that certain men do certain things because they wish to, and leave to others the explanation of the whyness of the wherefore.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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