1778 Church an Engine of State 16 We talk of the centricity and unity of empire.

1786 G. McCalman Crit. Inq. Motion of Sun iii. 56 Would [he] have ascribed fixation and centricity to some object or other in our own system, perhaps, to the earth?

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xxxvii. 6 Gives a decided character of centricity to the whole nervous system.

1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks vii. 57 In order to get proper centricity in the movement.

1950 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 272 177/1 Judaism had concentrated its religious and cultural emphasis upon the centricity of the home.

1980 14th Cent. Eng. Mystics Newsletter 6 45 The centricity of the cross in Christian life.

2012 Ethnomusicology 56 408 Photos of artists without an instrument in sight have become relatively common, communicating the centricity of the artist to the performing event.

1987 New Literary Hist. 19 75 Critics experience such distortions as centricity (the male as focal point, the female as marginal).

1995 Guardian 26 June (G2 section)11/4 They have identified a sense of limited geography at the BBC, a metropolitan centricity from a London dominated institution which extols South-east values.

2006 M. Rahman Human Rights & Domest. Implementation Mechanism 7 This excessive centricity is creating grievance among other smaller nations, who have a recognized right of self-determination.

2012 N. Bozak Cinematic Footpr. ii. 56 War and Cinema, then, is characterized by a centricity that ignores how the war-torn filmmaker manages when dispossessed of a steady or reliable means of producing images.