Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-TERM'IN-A'TION
DE-TERM'IN-ATE-NESSDE-TERM'IN-A-TIVE
DE-TERM'IN-A'TION, n.
- The act of determining or deciding.
- Decision of a question in the mind; firm resolution; settled purpose; as, they have acquainted me with their determination.
- Judicial decision; the ending of a controversy or suit by the judgment of a court. Justice is promoted by a speedy determination of causes, civil and criminal.
- Absolute direction to a certain end. Remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of the will to the greatest apparent good. Locke.
- An ending; a putting an end to; as, the determination of a will. – Blackstone.
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