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Determination

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Narrower term 34

Appointment 76% connected

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

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Assignment 76% connected

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Designation 76% connected

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

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Diligence 76% connected

The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

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Disproof 76% connected

A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

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Doggedness 76% connected

Sullenness; moroseness.

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Falsification 76% connected

The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

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Falsifying 76% connected

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Identification 76% connected

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

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Indefatigability 76% connected

The state of being indefatigable.

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Indefatigableness 76% connected

Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency.

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Industry 76% connected

Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness;…

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Localization 76% connected

Act of localizing, or state of being localized.

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Locating 76% connected

of Locate

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Location 76% connected

The act or process of locating.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Naming 76% connected

of Name

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Perseverance 76% connected

The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun.

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Persistence 76% connected

Alt. of Persistency

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Persistency 76% connected

The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.

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Pertinacity 76% connected

The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency.

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Predetermination 76% connected

The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will.

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Proof 76% connected

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Rectification 76% connected

The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.

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Refutal 76% connected

Act of refuting; refutation.

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Refutation 76% connected

The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, t…

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Resolution 76% connected

The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of…

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Solving 76% connected

of Solve

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Sortition 76% connected

Selection or appointment by lot.

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Substantiation 76% connected

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

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Tenacity 76% connected

The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

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Validation 76% connected

The act of giving validity.

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Choice 76% connected

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in prefe…

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Deciding 76% connected

of Decide

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Discovery 76% connected

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Firmness 76% connected

The state or quality of being firm.

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Judgement 76% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 76% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Mind 76% connected

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…

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Option 76% connected

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Resoluteness 76% connected

The quality of being resolute.

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Resolution 76% connected

The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of…

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Resolve 76% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Selection 76% connected

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

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Uncovering 76% connected

of Uncover

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Decide 74% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Decide 74% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Determine 74% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Determine 74% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Find 74% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Find 74% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Conclusion 92% connected

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Decision 92% connected

Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

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Finding 92% connected

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Purpose 92% connected

That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…

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