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Definition of Tentativeness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentativeness
Literary usage of Tentativeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models by William Maddux Tanner (1918)
"tentativeness, incompleteness, and lack of elaboration and literary finish were
felt by the inventor to be characteristic of this new literary genre. ..."
2. Essays and Essay-writing by William Maddux Tanner (1917)
"tentativeness, incompleteness, and lack of elaboration and-literary finish were
felt by the inventor to be characteristic of this new literary genre. ..."
3. Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models by William Maddux Tanner (1917)
"tentativeness, incompleteness, and lack of elaboration and literary finish were
felt by the inventor to be characteristic of this new literary genre. ..."
4. An Introduction to Social Philosophy by John Stuart Mackenzie (1890)
"... its dependence on the sciences without humiliation, its tentativeness without
impatience, and its true value and dignity without exaggeration. ..."
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