单词 | multeity |
释义 | multeityn. 1. The quality or condition of being multiple, or of consisting of many parts; manifoldness. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [noun] pluralitya1398 multiplicityc1454 moreness1611 manya1620 plural1655 multeity1814 several-fold1892 1814 S. T. Coleridge Princ. Genial Crit. iii The Philosopher of the later Platonic, or Alexandrine School, named the triangle the first-born of beauty, it being the first and simplest symbol of multëity in unity. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1847) I. ii. xii. 279 The conveniency of the scholastic phrase to..express the kind with the abstraction of degree, as for instance multeity instead of multitude. 1881 F. Y. Edgeworth Math. Psychics 50 That continuity of fluid, that multeity of atoms which constitute the foundations of the uniformities of Physics. 1891 B. F. Westcott Ess. 170 The central idea of the sacrament is placed in unity realised in multeity. 1959 Tulane Stud. in Eng. 9 53 His profound sense of the simultaneous oneness and multeity of life. 1989 Amer. Lit. 61 494 Kinnell's poetry expresses in an ever-changing series of antitheses: unity and multeity, kinship and separation, and self-dispersal and self-autonomy. ΚΠ 1836 Fraser's Mag. 13 738 A sonnet consists of fourteen lines. What magic lies within that limitary multeity! 1894 19th Cent. Apr. 633 (note) [History] tells only of the conflict of opposed multeities of men with organisation of each multeity for its hostile purpose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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