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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
finality
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She announced her impending departure with finality and sadness in her voice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aquinas himself saw no finality in the solutions offered by either Aristotle or Ptolemy to the problems of planetary motion.
▪ It has to be unfair to put some one through the stress of a trial without finality.
▪ Several efforts to reach finality have failed and the situation remains unresolved.
▪ There's a dreadful finality about cutting down a tree.
▪ When an enactment is passed there is finality unless and until it is amended or repealed by Parliament.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finality

Finality \Fi*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Finalities. [L. finalitas the being last.]

  1. The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.
    --Baxter.

  2. The relation of end or purpose to its means.
    --Janet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
finality

1540s, "a goal, a guiding object," from Middle French finalité, from Late Latin finalitatem (nominative finalitas) "state of being final," from Latin finalis "last, of or pertaining to an end" (see final). From 1833 as "quality or state of being final."

Wiktionary
finality

n. The state of "being final"; the condition from which no further changes occur

WordNet
finality

n. the quality of being final or definitely settled; "the finality of death" [syn: conclusiveness, decisiveness] [ant: inconclusiveness]

Wikipedia
Finality (law)

Finality, in law, is the concept that certain disputes must achieve a resolution from which no further appeal may be taken, and from which no collateral proceedings may be permitted to disturb that resolution. For example, in some jurisdictions, a person convicted of a crime may not sue their defense attorney for incompetence or legal malpractice if the civil lawsuit would call into question the finality of the criminal conviction. Finality is considered to be important because, absent this there would be no certainty as to the meaning of the law, or the outcome of any legal process.

The importance of finality is the source of the concept of res judicata - that the decisions of one court are settled law, and may not be retried in another case brought in a different court.

Finality

Finality may refer to:

  • Extrinsic finality
  • Intrinsic finality
  • Finality (law)

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.