discriminativeness

Updated: July 7, 2025

Her natural pride and discriminativeness had served her among temptations that would have been disastrous to a weaker nature. So it was that at the end of her "dolorous dozen" as she whimsically called her years of marital anomaly, she had run the gamut of every danger incident to such a career and had escaped without a scar. And her self-confidence was commensurably great.

Frank Mayer - The Song of the Wolf