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Meanings of passiveness in English
Catalan
passivitat Spanish
pasividad Usage of passiveness in English
1
But he tried at times to slumber, sunk in a wise passiveness.
2
How did you connect with her initial passiveness at her crumbling marriage?
3
The silence of the soul before God is no mere passiveness.
4
This is a passive force, and its passiveness only makes it more formidable.
5
Reflects on the Harlowe family, and particularly on Mrs. Harlowe, for her passiveness.
6
She folded her hands with a passiveness which boded future ill.
7
Meantime Averil Ward was acquiescing in all Henry's projects with calm desperate passiveness.
8
The feeling of surrealism, and passiveness, and fogged stupidity, lifted from me instantly.
9
The essence of these lies in the passiveness and neutrality of the intellectual powers.
10
One would not believe the utter passiveness of the people.
11
We want activity, no doubt, but we want a wise passiveness as its foundation.
12
Endeavors to find excuses for her father's ill temper, and for her mother's passiveness.
13
Why, therefore, should not the secret of nature's invariableness be, not passiveness, but rightness?'
14
As time progressed, the passiveness of Amanda encouraged in Lane his natural love of ruling.
15
All that was required was a 'wise passiveness' and 'a heart that watches and receives'.
16
It was a very simple one-totalpassiveness and silence.
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