fixity

How To Use fixity In A Sentence

• Fixity of social custom , for the same reason , tends to prevent what are called unhappy marriages.
• He has great fixity of purpose.
• Tokugawa period, the idea of fickleness would not have occurred to us; on the contrary, the dominant impression would have been that of the permanence and fixity of her life and customs. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
• Fair rent and fixity of tenure are not new concepts, but they seem to be concepts that the Government seem fearful to tackle.
• But by Johns's account, the goal of reliability, of fixity, of faithfulness, and of protected authorship remained constant.
• Of course, this definition assumed the "fixity" of species; but with the wide prevalence of the views of Darwin and his followers the term "species" has fallen into disrepute, and is now regarded by many as only an artificial rank in classification corresponding to no objective reality in the natural world. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
• The owner of the ground, however, was not in favour of the Tennis Club expending a considerable sum of money on their courts while they did not enjoy any fixity of tenure.
• Darwin challenged the fixity of species
• The girl nearest to the car, noticing the fixity of his stare, responded with a discreet V sign.
• But it is a mistake to think that racial or sex discrimination is morally objectionable because of the biological fixity or unchosen nature of race and sex.