| 单词 | a distinction without a difference |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa distinction without a difference b. a distinction without a difference: i.e. one artificially or fictitiously made in a case where no real difference exists. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > a difference or distinction > types of distinction a distinction without a difference1579 subdistinction1598 class distinction1843 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 207 The distinction remaineth without a difference. 1688 Vox Cleri Pro Rege 47 It seems his Power is absolute, but not arbitrary, which is..a distinction without a difference. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lx. 277 Your correspondent..seems to make a distinction without a difference. 1891 Speaker 2 May 532/2 The jugglery of words was never more successful than in this distinction without a difference. < as lemmas |
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