Quality of being settled

Usage examples of finality.

So therefore, when we are newly passed on, you may find an agnostic or an atheist who passes over expecting nothing but utter finality, and will find themselves surrounded by a wall of darkness built up by their own thoughts.

Since the decision of this case in 1867 the authority of the Supreme Court to exercise appellate jurisdiction over legislative courts has turned not upon the nature or status of such courts, but rather upon the nature of the proceeding before the lower Court and the finality of its judgment.

Still, when he realized how many thousands of copies of the booklet were being printed and shipped all over the world, the finality of it all almost came as a disappointment to him.

As Korin stepped back, the doors ponderously opened and Korin ushered Spyder through them before they slowly closed with a muted, yet solid, boom of finality.

The close of this process of organific metamorphosis and desquamation is death, whose finality is utter decomposition, restoring all the bodily elements to the original inorganic conditions from which they were taken.

Prayer and another long one in which the falling tones of valediction gathered into a melancholy finality.

Bernice said with such finality that, at last, Margarite was forced to believe her.

That had throbbed in the silent room with finality, a sound such as a programmatic composer, say Tchaikovsky, might have used as a tonal symbol for the breaking of a heart.

Mack with an air of feverish finality she felt that she herself was a very small, crude, badly-educated creature in a fluffy pink frock, and that Lady Sillocks knew it and knew it so well that she would assume it as obvious.

He felt a strange pang as it disappeared, of loss unrecovered, of finality.

Flower of author is not quite so common as the buttercup, the Californian poppy, or the gay Texan gaillardia, and for that very reason the finality it gives off will never be robust enough for a mankind at large that would have things cut and dried, and labelled in thick letters.

The gesture, Captain Vallery thought, held a curious air of decision and finality.

In religious matters there are great multitudes watching us perpetually, each propagandist ready with his bundle of finalities, which having accepted we may be at peace.

He clung to his mistrust the more because of a warning he had from the silenced natural voice: somewhat as we may behold how the Conservatism of a Class, in a world of all the evidences showing that there is no stay to things, comes of the intuitive discernment of its finality.

There are innumerable verses, French and Italian, in all stages, occasionally attaining the finality of these lines, which appear in half a dozen tentative forms: 'Sans mystere point de plaisirs, Sans silence point de mystere.