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oracularity|ɒˌrækjʊˈlærɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity.]
The quality or character of being oracular. a. The quality of being the medium or seat of an oracle, or of making divine communications.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. III. 260 Agreeably to the notion which ascribed oracularity to the sacred grotto. 1818― Horæ Mosaicæ I. 130 The mouth relates to the supposed oracularity of the diluvian ship, which was feigned to direct its votaries in an audible voice what course they ought to take. 1842― Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 36 To invest the Clergy with some dreamy and mysterious oracularity.
b. The quality of being laconic, obscure, and of veiled meaning; with pl. an instance of this.
1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 365 This we conceive to be in the purest style of the hieroglyphics, and to establish Coleridge's oracularity beyond all question. 1845Thackeray Picture Gossip Wks. 1900 XIII. 458 Stanfield has no mysticism or oracularity about him. a1849Poe Whipple Wks. 1864 III. 383 The quips, quirks, and curt oracularities of the Emersons [etc.]. |