pragmaticalness
English edit
Etymology edit
From pragmatical + -ness.
Noun edit
pragmaticalness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being pragmatical.
- a. 1678 (date written), T[homas] S[mart] Hughes, “Summary of Sermon XXII. Of Quietness, and Doing Our Own Business.”, in Isaac Barrow, The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume II, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830, →OCLC, page 106:
- Consider that quietness is just and equal, pragmaticalness is injurious to the rights and liberty of others: […]
- 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, page 637:
- It was the petulancy of the Puritans on the one side, and the pragmaticalness of the Jesuits on the other side, which made the breach wider than it was at the first : and had these hot spirits on both sides been charmed a while, moderate men might possibly have agreed on such equal terms, as would have laid a sure foundation for the peace of Christendom.
- 1859, James Kendall, Eccentricity, or, A Check to Censoriousness, page 157:
- I believe that a few of my readers will need a little light on the subject of pragmaticalness.