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decisiveness|dɪˈsaɪsɪvnɪs| [-ness.] The quality of being decisive; conclusiveness; resoluteness, decision.
1727in Bailey vol. II. 1797 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 45/2 They knew the decisiveness of his temper. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. ii. vi, The Mutineers pronounce themselves with a decisiveness, which to Bouillé seems insolence. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 23 The King, with swift decisiveness, annihilated the incipient treason. |