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- noun Plural form of
unfitness .
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Examples
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Where such love is, let the differences of taste, the unfitnesses of temperament be what they may, the two must by and by be thoroughly one.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864
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Where such love is, let the differences of taste, the unfitnesses of temperament be what they may, the two must by and by be thoroughly one.
What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864
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The thought of its possibility, nay, probability -- for were not such unfitnesses continually becoming facts?
Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864
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The thought of its possibility, nay, probability -- for were not such unfitnesses continually becoming facts?
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864
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What is transmitted in history and in science is the record of fitnesses or unfitnesses that have been ascertained by observation, or tested by experience.
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But to be more particular, and to shew, that those eternal immutable fitnesses and unfitnesses of things cannot be defended by sound philosophy, we may weigh the following considerations.
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743
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But to be more particular, and to shew, that those eternal immutable fitnesses and unfitnesses of things cannot be defended by sound philosophy, we may weigh the following considerations.
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Those who affirm that virtue is nothing but a conformity to reason; that there are eternal fitnesses and unfitnesses of things, which are the same to every rational being that considers them; that the immutable measures of right and wrong impose an obligation, not only on human creatures, but also on the Deity himself: All these systems concur in the opinion, that morality, like truth, is discerned merely by ideas, and by their juxta-position and comparison.
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743
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Those who affirm that virtue is nothing but a conformity to reason; that there are eternal fitnesses and unfitnesses of things, which are the same to every rational being that considers them; that the immutable measures of right and wrong impose an obligation, not only on human creatures, but also on the Deity himself: All these systems concur in the opinion, that morality, like truth, is discerned merely by ideas, and by their juxta-position and comparison.
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