quasi-universaladj.n.

1846 Amer. Whig Rev. July 32/2 We believe in the literal truth of this formula, as far as it implies the validity of arguments drawn from the universal or quasi-universal and uncontradicted consent of mankind.

1873 Galaxy May 628 If the writer did possess this quasi-universal knowledge, he would not have room to display it.

1911 Washington Post 8 Jan. 3/1 The ceaseless progress of science and industry will have almost altered the face of the English language, which..will be spoken as a quasi-universal tongue throughout the globe.

1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 579/1 Most significant of all is the emergence and quasi-universal adoption of the full-fledged nagara śikhara.

2005 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 13 Jan. 9 The quasi-universal sentiment is one of contempt, anger and disappointment—directed at George W. Bush's America, not France.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xii. 475 The nominalists, on their side, admit a quasi-universal, something which we think as if it were universal, though it is not.

1939 Philos. Rev. 48 553 Man as tragic poet expresses a quasi-universal which supplements the proposition, with all of its implications, that man is rational.

2003 R. Kearney Strangers, Gods, & Monsters iv. 102 These ‘lessons’ of poetry..constitute the ‘universals’ of which Aristotle spoke, and which we might call approximate or quasi universals since they operate at a lower degree than the abstract universals of purely theoretical thought and logic.