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virtuality|vɜːtjuːˈælɪtɪ|
Also 5 vertualyte.
[f. virtual a. + -ity, perh. after med.L. *virtualitas. Cf. F. virtualité, It. virtualità, Sp. virtualidad, Pg. virtualidade.]
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a. The possession of force or power. Obs.—1
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 25 b/1 Now we may saye that Jhesus in his ascension was right hye of iiii maners of heyght that is to wyte of place, of remuneracion or reward, of knowleche, and of vertualyte or strengthe.
†b. Something endowed with virtue or power.
1614Raleigh Hist. World i. i. 7 This omnipotent Spirit of God..St. Augustine sometimes taketh..for the holy Ghost; sometimes for a winde or breath,..or..for a created virtuality.
2. Essential nature or being, apart from external form or embodiment.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. ii. 343 In one graine of corne..there lyeth dormant the virtuality of many other, and from thence sometimes proceed an hundred eares. 1688R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times ii. Pref., The Two Main Pillars of the Old Cause were the Protestation (that was afterwards Emprov'd into a Covenant) and the Virtuality of the Sovereign Power in the Two Houses. 1843tr. Custine's Empire of Czar II. 272 When the church abdicates its liberty, it loses its moral virtuality. 1858H. Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. xiii. (1864) 418 The government of the world is waiting on Christianity, and is thus in highest virtuality a supernatural kingdom.
3. A virtual (as opposed to an actual) thing, capacity, etc.; a potentiality.
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxviii. (1870) II. 357 Our inclinations, dispositions, natural habitudes or virtualities. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iv. i, A Virtuality perfected into an Actuality. 1885Mrs. H. Ward tr. Amiel's Jrnl. II. 263 Is not mind the universal virtuality, the universe latent? |