Crossword clues for firmness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Firmness \Firm"ness\, n. The state or quality of being firm.
Syn: Firmness, Constancy.
Usage: Firmness belongs to the will, and constancy to the affections and principles; the former prevents us from yielding, and the latter from fluctuating. Without firmness a man has no character; ``without constancy,'' says Addison, ``there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.''
Wiktionary
n. The state of being firm; strength; permanence; stability; hardness; resolution.
WordNet
n. the firmness and tone of healthy tissue; "his muscle firmness" [syn: soundness]
the trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" [syn: resoluteness, resolve, resolution] [ant: irresoluteness]
the property of being unyielding to the touch
the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place [syn: steadiness] [ant: unsteadiness]
Wikipedia
Firmness is a faculty from the discipline of Phrenology.
Usage examples of "firmness".
Our beloved Father acquiesces, for he thinks you, at present, too much shaken, as well as herself, for so agitating an interview, till her mind is restored to its usual firmness.
Alexander ascended his tribunal, and with a modest firmness represented to the armed multitude the absolute necessity, as well as his inflexible resolution, of correcting the vices introduced by his impure predecessor, and of maintaining the discipline, which could not be relaxed without the ruin of the Roman name and empire.
She was doubtless astonished at my behaviour, for in her state of deshabille she could not have counted on my displaying such firmness.
On the report of his ambassadors, the chagan was awed by the apparent firmness of a Roman emperor of whose character and resources he was ignorant.
Our last hope, under God, is in the unity and firmness of the States that elected Abraham Lincoln and defeated Jefferson Davis.
She loved the firmness of the futon, the way you could turn over on it without making a bedspring creak, because there was no box spring underneath, only the floor.
He slid his two hands up under the throw, and with his workman clasp and closely trimmed fingernails, he traced slow patterns from the small of her back down around the solid gluteal cheeks and back up again, now and again detouring to trace the inner and outer lines of her velvet thighs, altering now and again the force of his touch, from a questing firmness to the lightest brushing stroke, but never changing the pattern or 72the rhythm.
She praised my firmness in rejecting her repentance, and agreed with me in thinking that the whole plan had been concerted between her and her aunt.
If the decrees of happenchance required firmness, I would be a rock, a very fortress of resolve.
Unhappily, his firmness was of no avail, and a few months after I left Warsaw the Russian tyrants arrested him and he was exiled to Siberia.
Two wrecks before, an Arnaoot, vell known to them as Dmitri of the Evil Eye, a famous Klepht of Korvo, and a Moreot, arrived, bringing with them a child, a bold, spirited, beautiful boy, who, with firmness beyond his years, claimed the protection of the Caloyers, and accused his companions of having carried him off by force from his parents.
If skin presses skin with adequate firmness, the electrical synapses may be instantly established to transfer the orgasmic images.
After the siege of Perisabor, the firmness of the emperor was exercised by the insolent avarice of the army, who loudly complained, that their services were rewarded by a trifling donative of one hundred pieces of silver.
He felt an infinite firmness in himself: the end to his hesitations, which had tormented him so terribly all through those last days!
My hand delightedly roved over the fat plump cheeks of her arse, stroking, caressing and pinching them, revelling in the firmness and elasticity of her flesh under its thin covering, Alice all the time, wriggling and squirming in horrible shame, imploring me almost incoherently to desist and finally getting so semi-hysterical, that I was compelled to suspend my exquisite game.