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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In old universities, the degree or grade of bachelor of arts. See determination, 12.

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Examples

  • Since Mr. Sarrazin's comments over the failings of muslim immigrants in Germany and the genetic determinance of certain ethnic groups first sparked an uproar last weekend, Ms. Merkel has stressed the bank's independence and her distance from the process by which Mr. Sarrazin's fate would be decided.

    Government Asked to Confer on Sarrazin 2010

  • It is the threat against an entire group of people based solely on some group determinance – their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or whatever definitions people use to distinguish between the “us” and the “them” – that makes a hate crime more than just a personal attack.

    The Necessity of Hate Crime Legislation « Lean Left 2007

  • On the other hand, I respect women's right to self-determinance.

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2004 2004

  • The hearings will facilitate the commission's investigation of the determinance of wages, incomes and employment.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • The commission is investigating the determinance of wages, incomes and employment.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • I've shown him a lot over the years and he's never gotten an audience, perhaps because he has this reputation for being extremely difficult and cerebral, for his cultural determinance, for the difficulty in understanding the politics.

    Twitch 2009

  • L 3 09 diftinctionis, pro impreiuone diftincta, determinance ad vifionern diftiiictam: magis vero remota, breiiiando con - curfutrx r-adiorum, ad fingula in ObieCto condiftinguenda pertinentium, in minori diftantia,8c minori expamlone eon - ftituere eamdemBailm diftmctionis.

    Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656

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