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literality|lɪtəˈrælɪtɪ|
[f. literal + -ity.]
1. The quality or fact of being literal; literalness; an instance of this. † Also, a literal meaning.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 9 Not attaining the deuteroscopy, and second intention of the words, they..are not sometime perswaded by fire beyond their literalities. 1650Bp. Hall Revelation unrev. §8 Wks. 1808 X. 107 How wild a paradox it is to tie those frequent and large promises of the Prophets..to a carnal literality of sense. 1818Lamb Female Orators Wks. 635 One her coarse sense by metaphors expounds And one in literalities abounds. 1844For. Q. Rev. XXXIII. 460 It is easy..to sneer at literality;..literality is after all the first merit of translation. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. xv. (1870) 293 Those to whom the sea has proved cruel, may..rejoice to accept the announcement in all its literality, that in heaven there shall be no more sea. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. 375 The same spirit of strictness and literality.
†2. Learning, knowledge of letters. Obs.
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