aptness

How To Use aptness In A Sentence

• He writes of "her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God; her capableness of understanding; her aptnesse and willingnesse to recieve anie good impression, and also the spiritual, besides her owne incitements stirring me up hereunto. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings
• Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.
• Individually-determined rationality is geniality, — aptness for an absolutely individual cognizing, so that the same can absolutely be accomplished by no other person-the artistic virtue proper; to it belong courage, composedness, modesty, grace, sympathy, confidence, etc. Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
• One pleasure in the rereading of Marx is to savor the trenchancy and aptness of his literary allusions. The Revenge of Karl Marx
• When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous; but when we put them in the mouth of Bacon they do not sound strange, they seem in their natural and rightful place, they seem at home there. Is Shakespeare Dead?
• Turning this quote on its head, one can confidently say that readers have proved this paradise allegory's aptness over and over again.
• Moreover, as his case shows, the longer a pontificate lasts, the greater the likelihood that a name chosen in good faith will outlive its aptness.
• For if they fell upon one kind of strictness, unless their care were equal to regulate all other things of like aptness to corrupt the mind, that single endeavour they knew would be but a fond labour; to shut and fortify one gate against corruption, and be necessitated to leave others round about wide open. Areopagitica
• Greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine.
• Results indicate that aptness of metaphor and expression style both affect Aad and persuasiveness significantly.