Crossword-Solution: OUGHTNESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oughtness | n. | The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OUGHTNESS | anagram | TOUGHNESS |
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| state of being right | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with OUGHTNESS (5)
But every reform springs from a sense of "oughtness"; and the sense of moral obligation is itself the spontaneous expression of the consciousness of moral freedom.
Mental hesitation as to obeying the sense of 'ought' is the proof of the vacillation of the perception of 'oughtness.' When I feel, first, that I 'ought' to forgive a peculator, and then that I 'ought' to give him up to 'justice'; or, alternatively, that I ought to rise earlier, and, again, that I may as well enjoy more sleep, I have reduced the 'categorical imperative' to the last term in a calculation.
Religion in its true meaning is the great fact of _duty, of oughtness_, consisting in an honest and persistent effort to realize ideal excellence and to transform it into actual character and practical life.
The _oughtness_ of the ought is certainly intuitive; the _whyness_ of the ought (conformity to God) is possibly intuitive also; the _whatness_ of the ought is less certainly intuitive.
Constraining emotion, a feeling of oughtness, may then arise both from a preview of bare accomplishment of plan or purpose set by ourselves or others, and also from sense of larger over lesser advantage.
Quotes with OUGHTNESS (1)
I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding eve…