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- noun The condition of being
uncompromising
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Examples
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Calvin reverted to Augustine's position on salvation, which they reasserted in all its uncompromisingness.
FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968
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Indeed, the work is characterized by a certain uncompromisingness and sharpness in its harmonies.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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No doubt, there is a certain admirable uncompromisingness, a certain Egyptian severity, in the musical line of the first of the
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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His thin, bearded face had more than ever that wistfulness which always softened towards him the uncompromisingness of her character.
The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899
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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868
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The other is that uncompromisingness can sometimes have specifically democratic virtues too, even apart from the underlying values that it represents.
Cato Daily Podcast 2009
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The other is that uncompromisingness can sometimes have specifically democratic virtues too, even apart from the underlying values that it represents.
Cato Unbound 2009
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-- Tr.) [83] If _uncompromisingness_ was an English word, it would express the thought more clearly and strongly.
Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) Enrico Ferri 1894
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