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† indiviˈduity Obs. [ad. med.L. indīviduitāt-em individuality, f. L. indīvidu-us (see next); cf. F. individuité (16–17th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] 1. The quality or character of being indivisible.
1611Cotgr., Individuité, indiuiduitie, inseperablenesse. 1632I. L. Womens Rights 63 The consummation and indiuiduitie of marriage. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. iv. 193 The further it departs from the middle Individuity of the Point, so much the more Space it doth fill. 2. The quality of being individually owned.
1605Daniel Queen's Arcadia Wks. (1717) 182 No Tenures, but a customary Hold..Common, without Individuity. 3. The quality that constitutes an individual, whether as distinct from other individuals, or as continuously indentical with itself.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. iii. vi. 422 Gods unintermitted service..preserving the individuity, or oneness of this Temple with the former. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. Wks. 1839 I. 135 Some place individuity in the unity of matter; others in the unity of form; and one says it consists in the unity of the aggregate of all the accidents together. |