单词 | progressiveness |
释义 | progressivenessn. The quality or character of being progressive (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > sympathy with or principles of > quality of being progressive progressiveness1654 progressivity1876 1654 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 2nd Pt. 607 By this expression of building up, the Apostle puts these Christians upon progressivenesse and perfection in the worke of Christianity. 1724 J. Guyse Standing Use Script. x. 254 He urged the like Progressiveness on other Believers. 1795 R. Southey Vision Maid of Orleans iii. 189 Those ties Which through the infinite progressiveness Complete our perfect bliss. 1845 R. C. Trench Fitness Holy Script. iv. 68 This progressiveness of Scripture is an important element in its fitness for the education of man. 1883 H. Bonar in Daily Rev. (Edinb.) 6 June 3/8 Our progressiveness consists in the fuller discernment of all parts of revelation. 1929 E. A. Powell Last Home Myst. iv. 81 The responsibilites of the political agent vary..according to the importance and progressiveness of the states to which they are accredited. 1946 Liberty 25 May 13/1 Progressiveness in law and in life, reasonableness in thought and in deed have ever been..the creed of the Czech nation. 1996 New Scientist 3 Feb. 45/2 Teilhard's thesis was that mankind would evolve until it reached an Omega point (Jesus) and it was this notion of progressiveness that attracted Dobzhansky to his ideas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1654 |
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