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Example sentences for "definite purpose"

  • The judgement of taste is quite independent of the concept of perfection Objective purposiveness can only be cognised by means of the reference of the manifold to a definite purpose, and therefore only through a concept.

  • But the pleasing form that is given to it is only the vehicle of communication, and a mode, as it were, of presenting it, in respect of which we remain free to a certain extent, although it is combined with a definite purpose.

  • I issued those invitations--with a definite purpose.

  • But if she ran away from me, she had a definite purpose, and some day we'll find out just what it was.

  • He half understood that there was a definite purpose in this semi-illumination: she had no wish that he should by chance recognize anything familiar in this house.

  • As regards the names of Cain's offspring, I believe that, in common with those of the holy patriarchs, they indicate not an absence of purpose or a random selection, but a definite purpose and a prophecy.

  • The colors have been thus arranged by God for a definite purpose.

  • Hartley Coleridge was splendidly endowed with talent, but there was one fatal lack in his character--he had no definite purpose, and his life was a failure.

  • Coleridge possessed marvelous powers of mind, but he had no definite purpose; he lived in an atmosphere of mental dissipation which consumed his energy, exhausted his stamina, and his life was in many respects a miserable failure.

  • A healthy, definite purpose is a remedy for a thousand ills which attend aimless lives.

  • His Conception of the Origin of Inorganic Nature by Mechanical Causes, of Organic Nature by Causes acting for a Definite Purpose.

  • The latter has prevailed generally in Biology until now, and accordingly the animal and vegetable kingdoms have been considered as the products of a creative power, acting for a definite purpose.

  • Hartley Coleridge was splendidly endowed with talent, like Sir James Mackintosh, but there was one fatal lack in his character--he had no definite purpose, and his life was a failure.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abstaining from; barley water; brownish yellow; closing the door behind; cried angrily; definite chemical; definite form; definite meaning; definite number; definite plan; definite proportions; definite purpose; definite quantity; double personality; good record; good season; hard fighting; large school; mental philosophy; moral progress; property qualification; she hurried; since thou; take pity; tropical nature; when questioned