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deˈstructiveness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being destructive; tendency to destroy.
1647J. Saltmarsh Spark. Glory (1847) 195 Far from bearing witness to any destructiveness or persecution of them. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 35 The Destructiveness of Atheism to Society. 1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 179 A weapon for its sure destructiveness Abominated once. 1869Echo 30 Oct., An epidemic fever unparalleled for destructiveness. 1875Kinglake Crimea (1877) V. i. 335 The..rashness, or rather self-destructiveness of the charge.
b. Phrenol. The name of a faculty or propensity having a bump or ‘organ’ allotted to it.
1815Edin. Rev. XXV. 235 To the Order of Feelings..belong the following species..6. Destructiveness. 1828Combe Constit. Man ii. §5 Destructiveness serves also to give weight to indignation. a1875Kingsley in Four C. Eng. Lett. 568 These same organs of destructiveness and combativeness. |