givenness

Noun

Meaning

the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed

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Examples

There is no doubt in my mind that, from the third-person point of view, monarchy is the most reasonable form of government. By embodying the state in a fragile human person, it captures the arbitrariness and the givenness of political allegiance, and so transforms allegiance into affection. Roger Scruton

Nonfiction Book Review: The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson. Source: Internet

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