The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer.

Jesus here falls back, as he so often does, on the gradualness of nature.

For all its summer gradualness, night seemed to have suddenly descended on and around them.

Two powerful social forces limit gradualness.

But the patient expectance of Noah comes out strongly in the story, as well as the gradualness of God's working.

It may also be considered with respect to the way of God's procedure with her, as to the gradualness thereof.

Scarcely a quality in Lincoln that was not reversed in Douglas-deliberation, gradualness, introspection, tenacity, were the characteristics of Lincoln's mind.

The thinking which he formulated in the late spring and early summer of 1861 obeyed his invariable law of mental gradualness.

Jesus is always recalling to us the gradualness of nature; first the blade, {123} then the ear, then the full corn.