Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being gradual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
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- noun The condition of being
gradual
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- noun the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual
- noun the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages
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Examples
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In response to a question on the mannerism of good counsel, Faraz Rabbani, a leading scholar of Islam, wrote: "Our age is an age where the Prophetic mercy, gentleness, gradualness, and wisdom need to predominate and condition any "promotion" of both virtue and law."
Fahad Faruqui: Outward Appearance vs. Inward Morality: The Hypocrisy Of Misdirected Faith Fahad Faruqui 2011
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In response to a question on the mannerism of good counsel, Faraz Rabbani, a leading scholar of Islam, wrote: "Our age is an age where the Prophetic mercy, gentleness, gradualness, and wisdom need to predominate and condition any "promotion" of both virtue and law."
Fahad Faruqui: Outward Appearance vs. Inward Morality: The Hypocrisy Of Misdirected Faith Fahad Faruqui 2011
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He followed the advance of the railways that abbreviated time and conquered space as they unified America, but he knew that these technological changes had been anticipated, with epochal gradualness, by nature itself.
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Turning to Christianity, Wright again emphasizes the Darwinian gradualness of the evolution of this new religion.
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It is but the gradualness of the "enzymes or metabolism" paradox resolution that fails miserably – Zn world did it inherently at the outset.
New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System | Universe Today 2010
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Turning to Christianity, Wright again emphasizes the Darwinian gradualness of the evolution of this new religion.
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In accordance with the Fabian theory of the "inevitability of gradualness," where is OEN goingwith these polls?
OpEdNews - Diary: OEN Poll Demographics Analysis Goes Live 2008
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Actually, the gradualness of their descent helped control the turbidity, so whenever Dortmunder aimed his flashlight back up the track there was very little extra roiling of the water.
Drowned Hopes Westlake, Donald E. 1990
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The stealth, and the gradualness, which seemed to characterize what was going on, did not suggest the activities of authorized representatives of Miles of Argentum.
Kajira Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1983
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When she became aware of Cadfael and his mule, she straightened her back with the right cautious gradualness and a true gardener's grunt, and turned upon him shrewd brown eyes under brows quizzically oblique, very knowing eyes that took him in from cowl to sandals in one sweeping glance.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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