Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being conclusive or decisive of argument or doubt; the power of determining opinion or of settling a question.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
conclusive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being final or definitely settled
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Examples
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"conclusiveness" of the conclusive reasons implied by rights assertions in recognition of the fact that, as we have seen, some rights have priority to others, and that few if any rights outweigh absolutely all non-right considerations in all circumstances.
Rights Wenar, Leif 2007
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"Then she can go to hell for all we care," he said, with emphatic conclusiveness.
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
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Of more interest, however, is his link, to a column by Margaret Wente that lacks the forceful conclusiveness of many of her other pieces, and raises some profoundly important issues.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Indeed, for Gross and others, the cultural arena of a courthouse and the legal case at stake could fix the identity of an individual or an entire national group with a conclusiveness that was hard to overturn.
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He had to admit, there was a part of him that did want to get physically closer to the picketers and hear what they had to say, with the hopes they would be able to utter something about his deviance that would convince him with conclusiveness, elusive conclusiveness, that he had to abandon his ways.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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He had to admit, there was a part of him that did want to get physically closer to the picketers and hear what they had to say, with the hopes they would be able to utter something about his deviance that would convince him with conclusiveness, elusive conclusiveness, that he had to abandon his ways.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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He had to admit, there was a part of him that did want to get physically closer to the picketers and hear what they had to say, with the hopes they would be able to utter something about his deviance that would convince him with conclusiveness, elusive conclusiveness, that he had to abandon his ways.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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For everyone else, the climate debate has been for decades now about the degree of conclusiveness of the evidence, measured against the practicalities of reducing carbon output.
Unthinking cap 2010
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There is some evidence but not enough for conclusiveness.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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There is some evidence but not enough for conclusiveness.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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