| 释义 |
seity rare.|ˈsiːɪtɪ|
[ad. med.L. sēitās, f. L. sē oneself: see -ity.]
That which constitutes the self, selfhood.
1709Steele Tatler No. 174 ⁋1 Scotus, to distinguish the Race of Mankind, gives every Individual of that Species what he calls a Seity, something peculiar to himself. 1733Budgell Bee IV. 347 For, these were Parts, of Dennis, Born, to Die! But, there's a Nobler Se-ity, behind; His Reason dies not. 1761G. Colman Crit. Refl. Dram. Writers in Massinger's Wks. (1779) I. p. xxiv, Our Old Writers thought no Personage whatever, unworthy a Place in the Drama, to which they could annex what may be called a Seity; that is, to which they could allot Manners and Employments peculiar to itself. 1906W. T. Seeger in Hibbert Jrnl. Oct. 83 [In Hindu theology] Seity is the power of infinite self-manifestation, man's being the same essentially as God's. |