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单词 imitancy
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imitancyn.

Etymology: < Latin imitānt-em: see imitant n. and -ancy suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈimitancy.
The quality or property of imitating; imitativeness.Apparently only in the works of Thomas Carlyle.
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1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. May 390/2 The servile imitancy..of Mankind might be illustrated under the different figure..of a Flock of Sheep.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets i. 49 Not ‘humanity’ or manhood..apehood rather,—paltry imitancy, from the teeth outward.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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