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pragmaticalness

pragmaticalness noun: the quality or state of being pragmatical.

Noun

pragmaticalness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being pragmatical.
    • Consider that quietness is just and equal, pragmaticalness is injurious to the rights and liberty of others: […]a. 1678 (date written), T[homas] S[mart] Hughes, “Summary of Sermon XXII. Of Quietness, and Doing Our Own Business.”, in Isaac Barrow, The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume II, London: A[braham]...
    • It was the petulancy of the Puritans on the one side, and the pragmaticalness of the Jesuits on the other side, which made the breach wider than it was at the first : and had these hot spirits on both sides been charmed a while, moderate men might possibly have agreed on such equal terms, as would...1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, page 637

Origin of pragmaticalness

From pragmatical + -ness.

Questions about pragmaticalness

What does pragmaticalness mean?
Pragmaticalness means the quality or state of being pragmatical.
What part of speech is pragmaticalness?
Pragmaticalness is a noun.

Words near pragmaticalness in the dictionary

  1. pragmaticality
  2. pragmaticalization
  3. pragmaticalizations
  4. pragmaticalize
  5. pragmatically
  6. pragmaticalness
  7. pragmatician
  8. pragmaticians
  9. pragmaticism
  10. pragmaticisms
  11. pragmaticist

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