Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tendency toward a center; centripetal force or tendency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Centripetency.
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- noun
tendency towards acenter
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All philosophy, of East and West, has the same centripetence.
Representative Men 2006
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All philosophy, of east and west, has the same centripetence.
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All philosophy, of east and west, has the same centripetence.
Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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