Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being efficacious; efficacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the capacity or power to produce a desired effect.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun capacity or power to produce a desired effect
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Examples
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I think media spin is overrated – which is why the good Charlie Cook always makes me sigh – what matters is the efficaciousness of the policies.
Matthew Yglesias » You Can’t Create Jobs by “Focusing” on the Economy 2010
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The efficaciousness of the D&R approach is evident throughout "The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices."
The Wizardly Ways of a Tech Lab Henry Petroski 2011
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The cold formality and dread-inducing, proto-Nurse-Ratched efficaciousness of this convocation affords a chilling counterbalance to the vulnerability implied in the prisoner portraits.
ArtScene: This Week's Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S. (August 17-21, 2010) 2010
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Just as with the physicians of olde who prescribed bleeding for their patients, recovery only proves the basic resilience of the system against multiple insults, not any efficaciousness of the prescription.
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What Malebranche needs to establish, then, is the claim that causation just is necessary efficaciousness, and the pressing question for Malebranche is how he can defend this claim.
Occasionalism Lee, Sukjae 2008
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Interestingly enough, from this claim concerning the necessary efficaciousness of divine volition, Malebranche immediately infers
Occasionalism Lee, Sukjae 2008
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For to accept that divine power is unique in its necessary efficaciousness need not itself imply that God is the only cause.
Occasionalism Lee, Sukjae 2008
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Many a theist would grant that creaturely causes lack necessary efficaciousness on the very grounds that Malebranche had presented, but still argue that this does not mean that they lack causal powers.
Occasionalism Lee, Sukjae 2008
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It is out of conceptual rigour — and against the grain of a potential popularity and perhaps even efficaciousness — that
History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin 2005
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It would be inappropriate to express a sense of hopelessness or meaninglessness or self-loathing with ruthlessly clear, perfectly reasoned and reverential language, just as it would be inappropriate to express a worldview of rational efficaciousness, knowable reality and self-reverence with ambiguous syntax, distorted thought processes, and self-loathing language.
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