Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being game or brave; courage; pluckiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Endurance; pluck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
game ;bravery ,courage orpluck
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
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Examples
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Some of them even played the first level and still couldn't see the 'gameness' of it.
A worthy model Steve gaynor 2009
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Bred from strains of Hatch, Claret, Black, Round Head and White Hackel for height, strength, speed and "gameness," or the ability to stay and fight instead of surrendering, a prize fighting cock may sell for as much as five thousand dollars.
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Bred from strains of Hatch, Claret, Black, Round Head and White Hackel for height, strength, speed and "gameness," or the ability to stay and fight instead of surrendering, a prize fighting cock may sell for as much as five thousand dollars.
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Developers of virtual worlds that use microtransactions already pay tax on the money they accrue that way, without they would argue necessarily undermining the integrity of the "gameness" of their world.
Consensus 2008
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I think it's very helpful for the discussion here, because it demonstrates how central practice and representation are to understanding "gameness" in any given context ?'
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We should look for a productive fit between local cultural representations of "gameness" and the games we study.
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Like Smith, he recognized that quality in her they each called "gameness," and even more than Smith he appreciated the commingling of Scotch shrewdness and Indian craft.
'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916
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This was his most interesting patient; he had attended her constantly for more than a year and in this time had learned to admire not only her beauty of person but her "gameness" and wholesome mentality.
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It’s apparently bred in to get a quality called gameness, which makes a wonderful dog but you have to watch them around other dogs.
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He described a dangerous combination - a dog that wants to kill, and also exhibits the "gameness" that unscrupulous breeders admire.
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