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n. - Remaining in place.

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Usage examples (14)
  • Therefore the motion is not a single motion, since motion that is interrupted by stationariness is not single.
  • Each of them has within itself a principle of motion and of stationariness (in respect of place, or of growth and decrease, or by way of alteration).
  • If a similar change should befall the nations of Europe, it will not be in exactly the same shape: the despotism of custom with which these nations are threatened is not...
  • Before we take up an especial expression upon the fall of immature and larval forms of life to this earth, and the necessity then of conceiving of some factor besides mere...
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