Meanings of distinguishing trait in English

The strictest sense of female propriety is a distinguishing trait among them.

SACCO, a conspirator, forty-five years of age, with no distinguishing trait of character.

Probably our horse's distinguishing trait was known to everybody in Frascati except his driver.

It had, indeed, every distinguishing trait of Cookie's phantom pig.

Variety may be considered as a distinguishing trait in the works, and ways of God.

The sense of justice, so conspicuous in boyhood, always remained a distinguishing trait in his character.

Early in his career in Silver City it was observed that perhaps his most distinguishing trait was curiosity.

That adroitness which formed the most distinguishing trait in his character, began very early to render him conspicuous.

The types of civilised humanity one meets might be denizens of Islington or Battersea for any distinguishing trait to stamp them as Antipodeans.

Excessive diffidence was not the distinguishing trait of another young man, Karl Holz, who had ingratiated himself into the master's favor in these years.

It is the distinguishing trait of womankind and one of the finest traits that the human race can boast of-thetrait of constancy and devotion.

Her distinguishing trait, however, was the instruction of the ignorant, and teaching young girls the principles of religion, as well as the rudiments of education.

What are the distinguishing traits, after all, of MacDowell's music?

It is one of their distinguishing traits.

She combined the distinguishing traits of both parents, and she grew up more effectively spoiled than her mother.

Our people, in deciding upon one operation or another, must be guided by wisdom and tact, which are the distinguishing traits of its natural gifts.