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verbality|vɜːˈbælɪtɪ|
[f. as verbal a. + -ity.]
1. The quality of being (merely) verbal; that which consists of mere words or verbiage.
1645Bp. Hall Peace-Maker 23 That it may appeare, this controversie hath in it more verbality then matter. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. x. 42 He will seem to be charmed with words of holy Scripture, and to flye from the letter and dead verbality. 1661Feltham Resolves i. iii. 181 Let men be never so specious in the formall profession and Verbalities of Religion. 1721Bailey, Verbality, a being Verbal. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 251 Verbality is the covering which such quack philosophers as Kant and Stewart put over their poor, naked, false theories. 1826― Lecture 45 note, I know of nothing so much calculated to reduce it [sc. Scripture] to a mere mass of verbality. 1877W. R. Alger Life Edwin Forrest II. xxii. 767 He was no starveling fed on verbality and ceremony, no pigmy imitator or empty conformist.
2. pl. Verbal expressions or phrases.
1840New Monthly Mag. LX. 316, I recollect..the glorious emanations..of my author—but I cannot remember the intoxicating verbalities wherein he clothes them. 1899W. James Talks to Teachers 257 We are stuffed with abstract conceptions, and glib with verbalities and verbosities. 1935B. Malinowski Coral Gardens & their Magic II. vi. vi. 246 The fact that the community are aware of the spell and know its wording is the most important clue to the appreciation of the verbalities of magic.
3. The quality appropriate to a verb.
1884tr. Lotze's Logic 26 The forms of substantivity, adjectivity, and verbality. |