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immediacy|ɪˈmiːdɪəsɪ|
[f. next: see -acy.]
1. a. The quality or condition of being immediate; freedom from intermediate or intervening agency; direct relation or connexion; directness.
1605Shakes. Lear v. iii. 65 He..Bore the Commission of my place and person, The which immediacie may well stand vp, And call it selfe your Brother. 1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 14. xiv. §1 (1669) 55/1 There is the immediacy of his providence. 1660S. Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. 431 The immediacy..of those first Scriptures from God to us. 1875H. James R. Hudson i. 10 Questions..bearing with varying degrees of immediacy on the subject. 1885Stevenson in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 549 A strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind.
b. Logic and Philos. (See immediate 2 b.)
a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 315 Spiritual verities, or truths of reason respective ad realia..are differenced from the conceptions of the understanding by the immediacy [printed immediatcy] of the knowledge. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxiii. (1859) II. 78 If Reid did not maintain this immediacy of perception..he would at once be forced to admit one or other of the unitarian conclusions of materialism or idealism. 1864Bowen Logic viii. 265 The reduction of a Hypothetical Judgment to a Categorical shows very clearly the Immediacy of the reasoning in what is called a Hypothetical Syllogism. 1874W. Wallace Logic of Hegel §12. 16 The a priori aspect or immediacy of thought, where there is a mediation, not made by anything external but by a reflection into itself, is another name for universality.
2. The condition of being the immediate lord or vassal: see immediate 1 b.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 446 Varel lost its immediacy, or independency, and stands at present under the superiority of Oldenburg. Ibid. V. 299 The Emperors Charles IV. and Wenceslaus engaged to maintain it in its immediacy on the Empire. 1818–48Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 23 note, The immediacy of vassals in times so ancient is open to much controversy.
3. The condition of being immediate in time (see immediate 4).
1856W. A. Butler Hist. Anc. Philos. I. 453 The sage will..ensure his certainty in the immediacy of enjoyment, carefully rejecting all intensive suggestions of past or future. 1898Chr. World 17 Mar. 15/4 On a subordinate point like the immediacy of the Second Coming.
4. pl. Immediate needs.
1923H. G. Wells Men Like Gods iii. iv. 288 The old things and the foul things, customs, delusions, habits,..base immediacies, triumph over us! |