Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being substantive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being substantive.
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- noun The quality or state of being
substantive .
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Examples
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The district court's conclusion that the rules are substantive rather than procedural rests on APA cases that do not involve that distinction at all, and the court's standards for measuring the "substantiveness" of rules are at odds with the Supreme Court's jurisprudence under the Rules Enabling Act.
Archive 2008-07-01 Peter Zura 2008
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The district court's conclusion that the rules are substantive rather than procedural rests on APA cases that do not involve that distinction at all, and the court's standards for measuring the "substantiveness" of rules are at odds with the Supreme Court's jurisprudence under the Rules Enabling Act.
USPTO Files CAFC Appeal Brief: Tafas v. Dudas Peter Zura 2008
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You regularly delete comments for being little more than critical of you, and I'd hate for their level of "substantiveness" to be judged by somebody so vapid as you.
IvyGate 2010
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As much as the substantiveness of the discussions struck Paulson, so did their sobriety and maturity.
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His passion, his eloquence, his substantiveness, and his compassion were all forcefully delivered.
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Ever notice how the degree of hysteria in our various AGW proponents essays, almost always varies inversly with the substantiveness of the point they are trying to make.
Cicerone of NAS Acquiesces in Data Obstruction « Climate Audit 2007
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Yes, substantiveness, I am getting there … just sorting words in my head.
June 3rd, 2004 mynxii 2004
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"I know that it is a matter of activity for the management and standards committee, as well as matters in any other jurisdiction, but I have no knowledge of the veracity or substantiveness of those claims," he told the commitee.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph John Bingham 2011
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"I know that it is a matter of activity for the management and standards committee, as well as matters in any other jurisdiction, but I have no knowledge of the veracity or substantiveness of those claims," he told the commitee.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph John Bingham 2011
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It is more like a kind of stuff ” the substantiveness on to which properties are stuck.
Substance Robinson, Howard 2004
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