determinedness

The Walkmen's greatest strength has always been a head-down determinedness.

Album reviews: The Walkmen, "Lisbon" and Interpol, "Interpol" 2010

In fact, everyday I was blessed with more clear examples of dignity, human spirit and gosh-darned determinedness than I have ever encountered.

Reason to live #9: Because I can Elizabeth McClung 2008

Inside her was that buoyant spirit, that love of life, that determinedness to go on.

CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2007 2007

But now the unheard-of cruelty and perverseness of some of your friends [relations, I should say — I am always blundering thus!] the as strange determinedness of others; your present quarrel with Lovelace; and your approaching interview with Solmes, from which you are right to apprehend a great deal; are such considerable circumstances in your story, that it is fit they should engross all my attention.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

‘So much determinedness; such a noble firmness in my sister, that there was no hope of prevailing upon her to alter sentiments she had adopted on full consideration.’

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Perhaps because of his "closeness," and his secret determinedness.

The Lost Girl 1907

And his face was dreadful to see in its hideous determinedness.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

The freedom is all the more perfect, true, and mature, the more it is character-firm, the more it has moral determinedness; and the highest moral freedom is that where the person can no longer waver in any moral question, where it has become for him a moral impossibility to choose the immoral, — and this is the state of holiness.

Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

The merely natural man has moral freedom as a simple and as yet undetermined freedom of choice; the virtuous man has his freedom as exalted to a determinedness for the good; he has no longer an equally balanced choice between good and evil, but his morally acquired peculiarity of character inclines spontaneously to the good.

Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

An, as yet, undetermined character has a much wider possibility of choice in single cases than a definitely shaped one; a characterless man is unreliable because his freedom has no moral determinedness, but is merely external freedom of choice.

Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873