Meanings
nounperplexiveness (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe quality of being perplexing; perplexingness
if the Perplexiveness of Imagination may hinder assent, we must not believe Mathematicall demonstration
1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC
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