Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of having roots, especially of being firmly established, settled, or entrenched.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being rooted.
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- noun The state or quality of being
rooted
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Examples
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The region where Reagan grew up - defined by the towns where his salesman father, Jack Reagan, could land a job - gave him a sense of what Reagan biographer Lou Cannon calls rootedness, while his mother, Nelle Reagan, saw to it that he viewed his glass as at least half full.
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I disagree with utkal on "rootedness", in the sense that nothing about films like Welcome,
NAACHGAANA 2009
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During a lecture in Toronto in 2007, Archbishop Williams had lamented what he called the lack of "rootedness" in the Anglican approach to Scripture and said "we've lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation."
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"I thought it would be a totally appropriate way of starting off the city's celebration, as a way of showing the 'rootedness' of churches within the history of Hattiesburg," she said.
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During a lecture in Toronto in 2007, Archbishop Williams had lamented what he called the lack of "rootedness" in the Anglican approach to Scripture and said "we've lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation."
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My secular, liberal friends clearly derive much of their identity and their rootedness from their political faith.
Church and State, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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May's preferred description of love is as "a yearning for ontological rootedness".
Love in literature 2011
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What sort of change is possible given the rootedness and pervasiveness of the problem?
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He calls love a feeling of "ontological rootedness" in another—whether spouse, lover, child, friend or even a thing or idea.
Isn't Love Divine Charlotte Allen 2011
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What sort of change is possible given the rootedness and pervasiveness of the problem?
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