impartibilityn.1
/ɪmpɑːtɪˈbɪlɪti/ The quality or condition of being impartible or not subject to partition.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > wholeness or unity of being > state of being indivisible or inseparable
undepartablenessc1449
inseparableness1598
inseparability1623
indivision1624
indivisibility1647
unpartableness1647
impartibility1656
cleavelessness1674
1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 129 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity The impartibility, or indivisibility of the Godhead.
1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 225 The elder sister and her issue should be preferred..as well on account of her primogeniture, as the impartibility of the Kingdom.
1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II II. 206 The impartibility of them [sc. military fiefs] is ascribed, by many writers to a constitution made by the emperour Frederick Barbarossa.
1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 117 Those forms which, on account of their simplicity and impartibility, hold a superior rank among principles.
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impartibilityn.2
rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
Capability of being imparted; communicability.
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1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Impartibility... 2. The quality of being capable of being communicated. [Hence in later Dicts.]
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